Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Lewis B. Smedes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002

Topics

PolicePotentialPrivacyPersonal

I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

Andrew Tan

BusinessHopePeopleReal Estate

In terms of preparation, if there's some historical context that's needed, I do like to read a lot. Working on Joe Kennedy for 'Boardwalk,' I read a couple of biographies on him. It's nice to have a broader context of the man outside of where the show is coming from.

Matt Letscher

ManPreparationNiceOutsideHim

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

Jeffrey Tambor

MePilotMoreRealThroughGot

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

Jean Stapleton

WorkCharacterDayDoingEnoughYou

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

John Shelby Spong

NatureThinkUniverseBootsPerson

I'm a tech-head. I've been a tech-head since '84, man.

Sinbad

ManBeenSince

I'm very quiet off stage. I think I'm a pretty boring person. I'm not super talkative; I spend a lot of my time running and zoning out. I spend so much time trying to write jokes and 'be on,' so when I'm finally off stage, I just want to sit.

Michelle Wolf

TimeThinkTryingQuietPersonWant

I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took a while.

Judith Viorst

LookingPerfectTwoYearsAround

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

Josie Maran

HeartMyselfWouldInventorConsider

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Jose Marti

PoetrySeasonGrainCentury

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

Jonathan Dee

FeelTalkingYouBadPlaceWant

Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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