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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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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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 have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
