Ben Eine Quotes
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
Quotes to Explore
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
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Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?
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Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
