J. B. Smoove Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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 have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
