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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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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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
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You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
