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Live a Why not? life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

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Kevin Smith
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 2
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Kevin Patrick Smith
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For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.
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Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
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It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
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Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
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Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.
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I just love movies, so suddenly, you’re political about movies, and that’s dark. It’s just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
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So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.
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I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
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I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.
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If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
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In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards
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One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
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People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
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Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
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Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.
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I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.
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There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
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More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
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Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.
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