A. C. Benson Quotes
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
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For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
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When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
