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Russell Smith Quotes

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 2, 1963

Topics

Future Story Mystery Said Never She

We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.

Food Kind Natural Going Well Market

Kids are truthful by nature.

Nature Truthful Kids

Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'

Experience Focus You Career Say Way

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Alone Day Yourself Practice Brain

When I was operating as one of President Reagan's economic advisers, an early assignment was to analyze the federal government's landholdings and make recommendations about what to do with them. This was a big job. These lands are vast, covering an area six times that of France.

Job Government Early President Big

I'm not cut out to lug babies around!

Out Cut Babies Around

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.

Life Today I Am Me Growing Up Up

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

Mary-Louise Parker

Face You Want Movies See Porch

I don't play tennis at all.

Brooklyn Decker

Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Numbers Always Open Head Smooth

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

Susana Martinez

Courage History Me Little Girls Look

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

America Extraordinary Coming Been

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