Chris Smith Quotes
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.
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Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
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It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
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There may well be a time for military action.
