Michael Smith
Michael Smith
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You can start a regular savings program through a credit union, if you have one, or set it up with your bank as an automatic withdrawal from your checking account. The point is that your system makes you do it, and it takes the money before you ever touch it.
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All we can guarantee is the fish are there.
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It is likely that the carrying value of these assets is below the current market value.
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Each of you should be satisfied that your struggle expresses an innate moral commitment passed on by those we honor.
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We all know Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week. I honestly believe this movie has real potential to change our country on race relations. People will walk out of this movie talking.
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I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
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I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.
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One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.
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'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.
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When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
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You see a comic, and you're like, 'Oh wow: the Riddler has been drawn this way, and he's been drawn that way.' There are tons of looks, and his personality changes based on who's writing them.
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I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.
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In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.
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I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.