J. B. Smoove Quotes
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.
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I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
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I have a few homes. I have my family home in Adelaide where my parents and my brothers and sisters are, and I have a few friends and my place where I used to live in Sydney, and then my husband and our family in London, so... I'm from everywhere and nowhere.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
