Kate Smith Quotes
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Actors don't have real value.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.
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I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.
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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
