J. B. Smoove Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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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 I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Life is short, I have no time for drama.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.
