Chris Smith Quotes
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It's not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.
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Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
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Abortion is child mortality.
