I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.


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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so ...
SAM SMITH
My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and t...
SAM SMITH
I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
SAM SMITH
My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'...
SAM SMITH
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH
The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH
There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH
If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH
Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH
Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be ...
JACLYN SMITH
I have had to learn about saying no.
JACLYN SMITH
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
JACLYN SMITH
I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
JACLYN SMITH
I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a p...
JACLYN SMITH
My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
JACLYN SMITH
I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog...
JACLYN SMITH
Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
JACLYN SMITH
Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still...
JACLYN SMITH
Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
JACLYN SMITH
I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my...
JACLYN SMITH
I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
JACLYN SMITH
You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
JACLYN SMITH
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help ke...
JACLYN SMITH
I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or...
JACLYN SMITH
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so...
JACLYN SMITH
I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
JACLYN SMITH
Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it th...
JACLYN SMITH
It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
JACLYN SMITH
I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just ...
JACLYN SMITH
You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
JACLYN SMITH
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I...
JACLYN SMITH
Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, ...
JACLYN SMITH