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Sydney Smith Quotes

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

Topics

Man Poverty Disgrace Inconvenient

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

Good Great Job Man Looking Story

Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

Discipline Dance Mistake You Acting

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.

Music I Am Me Listening Enjoy High

Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.

Simon Conway Morris

Organization Think Universe I Think

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

Women Simple Dress Black Sailor Out

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Conflict Jokes Dissent Sensitive

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Today Government Legal Cigarettes

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Change Moving On Start Name Wish

I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'

Work Home Me Lose Go Never

Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.

Allison Pearson

Focus Sometimes Relief Foot Just

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

People Me Want Sides Whatever Even

I'm a TV junkie.

Shannon Elizabeth

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