Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
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I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
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Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!
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It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
