Dan Smith Quotes
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.
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The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.
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I have a hyper personality.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
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Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.
