J. B. Smoove Quotes

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

J. B. Smoove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1966

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What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

Jenifer Lewis

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You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

John Corbett

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There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Roger Ebert

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp

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Thankfully, I've got great support around me to keep my feet on the floor.

Dele Alli

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I was born in our Chembur house in Mumbai, where we lived for five years after which we shifted to our Lokhandwala house.

Arjun Kapoor

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Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Philip Schaff

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I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

Susan Orlean

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Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Pawan Kalyan

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The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

Sebastiao Salgado

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I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal.

Scott Aukerman

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