Lucky Blue Smith Quotes
Most of my friends are in the industry - photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
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When you're in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.
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Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
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Most of my friends are in the industry - photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.
