A. C. Benson Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
