Ben Eine Quotes
I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.
Quotes to Explore
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going
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One of my favorite movies is 'Some Like It Hot,' which isn't really a musical, but I'm just such a sucker for old movies. I wouldn't want to ever tarnish one of them, or do a spot-on remake, but just do something light like that where I get to glide across the floor. I would be a very happy camper.
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If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
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Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it.
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I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
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We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
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Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
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My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.
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I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.
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As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.
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“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences.”
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It's amazing - 2015 has been a fantastic year for me because of the records I've broken and the wins I've had.
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In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
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I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.
