Maggie Smith Quotes

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

Maggie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 28, 1934

Topics

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Jeremy Collier

LearningBeliefWayGets

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.

Stompin' Tom Connors

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I will rebuild the people's trust in government and create a stable foundation for Taiwan's future development.

Tsai Ing-wen

FutureTrustGovernmentPeopleWill

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Roger Moore

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I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

Rob Halford

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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever - plumbers and drywall hangers.

Ron White

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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy.

Lita Ford

MeSmokeCopyNeverSent

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Joshua Bell

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He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

Jose Rizal

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There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.

Debra Granik

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But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

Donald Sutherland

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