Chris Smith Quotes
David has shown our theater community what can be accomplished with responsible management practices that are also serious about art.
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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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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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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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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it.
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If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.
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Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.
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I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
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David has shown our theater community what can be accomplished with responsible management practices that are also serious about art.
