Clint Smith Quotes
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs.
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I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.
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I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.
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New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
