J. L. B. Smith Quotes

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round.

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.

Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

People overthink flowers. They are afraid to mix and match, so they don't do anything!

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

There's so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they're lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

When I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll eat Lucky Charms cereal. I like having sugar when I'm in that mood.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

Learning makes us all uncomfortable.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.