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Daniel Smith
"The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head." --
Source : Daniel Smith (2013). “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
Daniel Smith
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“Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.”
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“What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And yet classical economists say, "Oh, well, no, it would've adjusted perfectly happily, a few weeks of pain and then everything would've gone on as before, without a banking system left." And that's what makes it so maddening, that these bankers are back saying it was all the government's fault. The government saved their skins. It didn't want to, but it needed to save their skins in order to save the rest of us.”
“A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.”
“Don't miss your life.”
“An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.”
“I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.”
“No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.”
“I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.”
