Clint Smith Quotes
Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
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I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.
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I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.
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Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
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Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.
