Chris Benz Quotes
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi – finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.
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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
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You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.
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I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
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I have no problem with being underdressed.
