Clint Smith Quotes
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
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Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
