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• A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

  Nate Lowman

  Believe, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!

  Nate Lowman

  Crazy, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

  Chris Killip

  Real, Defense, My Smile

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• I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

  James Norton

  Optimistic, Thinking, Guy

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Novelists, Bookstores

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.

  Cornel West

  Water, Way, Jeremiah

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Support, President, Lost

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

  Susan Boyle

  Want, Stage, Persona

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

  Mario Testino

  Giving, Mind, Photograph

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• I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

  Erin Wasson

  Crazy, Dresses, Looks

  "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I'm a really smiley person, so I've just learned when I'm doing my own makeup, I have to make sure it's smile ready and not too heavy. As amazing as the Victoria Beckham pout is for photos, I just can't do it!

  Rosario Dawson

  Makeup, Heavy, Beckham

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• Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Firsts, Diploma

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.172, Broadway Books

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• If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.

  Zach Braff

  Blue, Yellow, Inbreds

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• If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

  Kara Walker

  Wall, Artist, Black

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• I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

  Sally Hawkins

  Happy Life, Optimist

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth.

  Richard Russo

  Character, Understanding, Depth

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• I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Trying, Faces

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• I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

  Emily Browning

  People, Roles, Enough

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• I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

  America Ferrera

  Children, Gregarious, Seconds

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Mom, Kids, Giving

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• Nobody symbol occurred to me one night at my grandmother's house. The eyes are an inversion of X'd out eyes - the man is enlightened. His teeth are clenched. It's not a smiley face. It's right before he dies. It plays into my philosophy where everybody gets enlightened before they die.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Philosophy, Eye, Night

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

  Yogi Berra

  Attitude, Positive Attitude, Good Positive

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.

  Nikki Sixx

  Morning, Faces, Smiley Face

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way — because it’s had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But you’ve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Believe, Years

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