Rod Smith
Born on September 20, 1962, Rod Smith entered a life that would take shape around the written word, with his place of birth recorded as Gallipolis.
Smith is an American poet and writer who works in English. The facts available about his career identify him primarily through those two occupations — poet and writer — placing him within the tradition of American literary production. A citizen of the United States, he has pursued work in the English language across a career that has drawn the attention of major bibliographic and authority systems, including the Library of Congress, the Virtual International Authority File, the German National Library, and the International Standard Name Identifier registry.
Those institutional records — the LCNAF, VIAF, GND, and ISNI identifiers assigned to his name — reflect the documented reach of his work within library and archival systems that catalog writers of recognized standing. Each of these databases maintains its own criteria for inclusion, and Smith's presence across all four points to a career that cataloguers and archivists have found worth tracking and preserving. For a poet working in English, an entry in the Library of Congress Name Authority File in particular represents a form of bibliographic recognition that libraries rely upon when organizing and attributing literary work.
Quotes by Rod Smith
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The first time I saw a poll in this election, they had me at 4 percent. That's the good news. The bad news was that the margin of error was 5 percent. I'd like to think that meant I was at 9 percent.
And it isn't always talent. There are lots of talented guys outside these walls who can't get in. It ain't just talent. Guys want to say it is, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. They learn that or they do something else for a living.
You've got those two guys, and both of them want to be the other one, but it's fun. That's the thing. Those guys know what they do and how they really make their money. They get the chance to go on the other side of the ball and mess around a little bit.
He's in the classification of Bundy or Wuornos. He will forever have a certain infamous notoriety.
I don't think that's something the governor makes decisions about. I'm going to let local government decide whether a dog gets to go in. I hope they do.
He's in total control. He's the guy that you see when he leaves every week he's got a bag of tapes with him. The rest of us get DVDs, Jake gets a bag of tapes that he takes home to study to make sure that he can put all of us in the right position.
It heats up a week before, then two days before. Then it gets ridiculous during the last couple of minutes. Sometimes the phone rings at the last minute with some crazy ideas, but I don't like operating that way.
It helps us physically and mentally because we play well at home. And you want other teams to come to your place with that doubt that 'They play well at home.' It doesn't mean everything. I've been in the playoffs where we've lost at home against Jacksonville (in the 1996 season) and I didn't get off the couch for three months.
If you want to fix the schools, pay the teachers better, recruit the best and the brightest back into the classroom, give them the authority to run the classes, educate them so that we're doing something besides becoming just an FCAT test center.