Cynthia Leitich Smith Quotes
I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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We are all terminal.
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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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Playing with friends is a victory.
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There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
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I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.
