Wes Bentley Quotes
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.
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Life is good - we forget that.
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When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
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Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.
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If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
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You can never predict a hit.
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
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I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.
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If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
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Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
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Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
