Ann Lewin-Benham Quotes
Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.
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Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
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There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
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That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.
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I've always been able to overcome things, and to this day, it still bugs me that I couldn't overcome a ball to the face. But I think things worked out for the best.
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Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.
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Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.
