Lucky Blue Smith Quotes
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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There are programs that don't work.
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.
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I work hard and support myself.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.
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Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.
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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
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I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies.
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I will never work in a cubicle.
