Kim Smith Quotes
I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
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YOU LYING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!
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I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.
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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
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I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.
