Owen Benjamin Quotes

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

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• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

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• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

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• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

  

  Madison Pettis
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• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
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• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
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• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
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• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  

  Patricia Briggs
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• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

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• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
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• My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.

  

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• I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

  

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• Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

  

  Margaret Millar

• The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

  

  Marion Bartoli
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• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
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