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 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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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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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.
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Washington is a very complicated city. You have to work the personal relationships. They are politicians, they are congressmen, they are senators, but they are human beings. And for them to get to know you on a personal level really, really makes the difference.
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
