Robert Smith Quotes
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.
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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'
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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
