Owen Benjamin Quotes
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
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I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
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International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
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I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
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I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.
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Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.
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I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.
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The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
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We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.
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The companies are no longer the purveyors of good taste. Youtube is.
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No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries - they all bring on their own special breed of dismay... You just have to ride the wave. You don't have any other choice.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
