Eric Bentley Quotes
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands.
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I wanna be your happiness.I wanna be your common sense pain.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Besides what have poets, in any case, to do with sin? They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant or die! But what am I trying to say?
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
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I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
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In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
