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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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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I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
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Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
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Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.
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We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.
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I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
