Arthur Smith Quotes
About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.
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In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.
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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
