Jimmy Smits Quotes

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Jimmy Smits

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1955

Topics

WorkStormYouArtistFindMatter

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

LifeDanceYouLookWhyUnderstand

Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.

Jenny Zhang

LoveGoodWomenCultureManPain

A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

Melvyn Bragg

AdmireNovelsProvincialLot

I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It's about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.

Jeff Nichols

TimeArtMoneyFilmmakingCreate

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

LeadershipDisciplineManagementOut

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

Tom Steyer

MindsetPriceWillPayHeavyInsist

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Russell M. Nelson

ParentsNameSometimesRealMayWho

From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

Lucy Dacus

WomenMusicMyselfBeginningPeople

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Judge Mills Lane

RiseEventGiveLawsuitEveryDoes

You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.

Diego Costa

YouChampionsKnowManagerRace

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

Donna Karan

New YorkMeWorldNewAnythingThan

I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.

Peter Heller

EffortMeStrongGrindCountry

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