J. B. Smoove Quotes
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.
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I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
