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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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
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When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
