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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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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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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I always do my interviews face to face.
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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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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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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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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
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Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.
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Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
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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.
