Arthur Smith Quotes
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.
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I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
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I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.
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My mom went to that same doctor and got a butt lift. It's a little too lifted, I think, alright. Now every time she farts only dogs can hear it.
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He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.
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FORM = STRUCTURE = PLACE
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I want government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
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There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.
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Andre Recke and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff.
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What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could be used anonymously, like cash?
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I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
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Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.
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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
