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Ali Smith Quotes

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1962

Topics

Fashion Gay Fickle Because Published

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

Joe R. Lansdale

Wife Ambition Succeed Better You

The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.

Work Journey Story Feel Way Tell

I am unashamed to say that I have a super-crush on Kate Oates, the series producer of 'Coronation Street.'

I Am Say Street Producer Coronation

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

God Water Me Fly Deep Hands

Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.

Stephen Merchant

Work Doors Remember You I Can Wrong

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

Funny Time You Back Place Kind

I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.

Education Technology Innovation First

It's just a wild experience to have thousands of people stand up and cheer for you.

Phoebe Robinson

Experience People Stand Up Stand You

I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008.

Friends You Talk More Two Same

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

Sports Create Why Basics Club Idea

The most interesting thing to me is that 'The Walking Dead' is a show that reinvents itself every eight episodes. It's an evolving landscape. There are characters that die. There are characters that stay on. There are characters that go away. I love that.

Scott M. Gimple

Love Me Walking Interesting Die Go

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

Thomas Middleditch

Business Respect Me Door Gold Think

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