Wes Bentley Quotes

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

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• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Money
  • Survive

• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Know

• Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Try

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Travelling

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • India
  • Ahead

• Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parents

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • May
  • Man

• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Stand

• I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Lawyer
  • Legal

• It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Time
  • Men
  • House

• As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Friendship

• The frontier is the edge between what you know and what you don't know. You want to put yourself on that edge.

  

  Jordan Peterson
  • Know
  • Edge
  • Frontier

• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Country
  • Together
  • Technology

• We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Place
  • Wanted
  • London

• I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • Wanted
  • Would
  • Sensations