Cory Michael Smith Quotes
I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
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Here’s my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic - they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.
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You could not even pay anyone to say something bad about Bill.
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I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
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I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.
