L. Neil Smith Quotes
I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Naked is the best disguise.
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I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
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I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.
