Arthur Smith Quotes

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Arthur Smith

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• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • You
  • Space

• Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Ignore
  • Times
  • Reflecting

• I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Day
  • Couple

• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Idea
  • Golf
  • Big

• Where liberty dies, evil grows.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Evil
  • Liberty
  • Where

• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Technology

• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People
  • Important
  • Everyone

• There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Attention
  • Failure
  • Fight

• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• I'm a pacifist by nature.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Nature
  • Pacifist

• What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Brain
  • Son

• Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Heart
  • War
  • Peace

• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Death
  • Better
  • Cannibalism

• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Trust
  • Dark
  • Jump

• Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Laughter
  • Suffers

• Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

  

  Arthur Smith