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Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

Martin Cruz Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1942

Topics

Feel Bad Wrong Things I Feel Very

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Values Laws Our Embody Adopt

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.

Hope Writing Evolving Side Technical

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

Today Alone Simple Lie School Facts

Even though The Cure helped pioneer the jangly, dance-oriented guitar and keyboard style it continues to embrace, there are other bands that now employ the post-punk style with greater flair. This leaves The Cure's live presentation seeming a bit anonymous.

Live Style Guitar Now Embrace Cure

I know that I do deserve good things.

Good Good Things Know Deserve Things

All the politicians in Uganda play to their fundamentalist benefactors in America because of the flow of money.

Roger Ross Williams

Money America Play Flow Politicians

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

Women Service Men You Know Young

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

Me You Said Want Write Fiction

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

Good Great End You Wrong Director

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Ludwig von Mises

War Prosperity Plague Earthquake

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

Jonathan Levine

Work Learning Hope Myself Experience

I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie.

People Me Control Feel Push Long

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