Chris Smith Quotes
David has shown our theater community what can be accomplished with responsible management practices that are also serious about art.
Quotes to Explore
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed history and to perform a comprehensive clinical examination.
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David has shown our theater community what can be accomplished with responsible management practices that are also serious about art.
