Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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There is no one true church.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.
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For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt.
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There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that's been a running thread in my career.
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
