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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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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In Korea, the director has the final word. If the director makes a decision, that decision is final. In Hollywood, every decision needs to go through the producer, the studio, and sometimes even the main actor. There is a certain procedure that needs to be followed.
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I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
