Arthur Smith Quotes
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
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I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
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Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.
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I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!
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Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
