Arthur Smith Quotes
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
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No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
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I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.
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The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
