Cory Michael Smith Quotes
'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
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Orlando was the first guy I thought of because we'd done a commercial together and I just liked him -- every take was different.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.
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My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.
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'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.
