Lucien Smith Quotes
I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.
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I spend most of my money in Prada or plane tickets.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
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My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.
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I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.
