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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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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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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I have always loathed working out.
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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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You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
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Having constant supporters and people who are always there and always giving back and knowing that they're loving what you're doing is always awesome to see.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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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.
