Chris Smith Quotes
This year I really feel like I've been taking steps in the right direction. Things are finally coming back together and I'm starting to feel more like I did in 2001 and 2002.
Quotes to Explore
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
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If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
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Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
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The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.
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This year I really feel like I've been taking steps in the right direction. Things are finally coming back together and I'm starting to feel more like I did in 2001 and 2002.
