Maggie Smith Quotes

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

Maggie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

Jessica Williams

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I had the wonderful good luck of having Jimmy Gandolfini as my mentor and David Chase as my godfather, two of the most talented guys in the history of television.

Steven Van Zandt

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I'm used to the feeling of playing in a team with high individual quality.

Toni Kroos

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Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

Marvin Sapp

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Lord Byron

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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Donald Knuth

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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

Christian de Duve

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The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Suzanne Fields

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There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.

Peter Landesman

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Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

DiamondsImpactOverYearsIndustry

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.

Scott Turow

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