Ben Eine Quotes

Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.

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• A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

  

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• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

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• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

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• I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

  

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

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• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

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• I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

  

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• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

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• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

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• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  

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• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

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• It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

  

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• She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

  

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• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

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• When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

  

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• The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

  

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• 'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

  

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• I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

  

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• I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.

  

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• I can't add above 10, I can't draw a stick figure, and I'm tone deaf. So I had to be able to do something. I found that something was picking successful models.

  

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• Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Interesting
  • Fault
  • Shutter