J. B. Smoove Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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You never know what's going to happen with television these days.
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Whatever god he adores, or even if he rejects all the gods, the man who desires to create cannot express himself if he does not feel in his veins the flow of all the rivers- even those which carry along sand and putrefaction, he is not realizing his entire being if he does not see the light of all the constellations, even those which no longer shine, if the primeval fire, even when locked beneath the crust of the earth, does not consume his nerves, if the hearts of all men, even the dead, even those still to be born, do not beat in his heart, if abstraction does not mount from his senses to his soul to raise it to the plane of the laws which cause men to act, the rivers to flow, the fire to burn, and the constellations to revolve.
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Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
