Charles Martin Smith Quotes

• What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

  Charles Martin Smith

• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  Charles Martin Smith

• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

  Charles Martin Smith

• Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

  Charles Martin Smith

• The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

  Charles Martin Smith

• The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it’s cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

  Charles Martin Smith

• The fact is that I loved being in England

  Charles Martin Smith

• Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

  Charles Martin Smith

• If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I’ve got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I’ve always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you’re about.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I’m very aware when I’m speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I’d always been a great fan of George Orwell.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I’m such a slow writer.

  Charles Martin Smith

• I hate to be categorized.

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• I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

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• But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

  Charles Martin Smith

Charles Martin Smith (18)

Birth:	30th October, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Writer

About

Smith was born in Van Nuys, California. His father, Frank Smith, was a film cartoonist and animator, while his uncle Paul J. Smith was an animator as well as a director for the Walter Lantz Studios. Smith spent three years of his youth in Paris where his father managed the English-language branch of a French animation studio. He received his high school diploma from Grover Cleveland High School, Reseda, California. He attended California State University, Northridge and was awarded a B.A. in Theatre.

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