Ben Eine Quotes

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Want
  • Giving
  • You

• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • New York
  • Homeless

• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Modeling

• Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • American
  • America

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• I am always fascinated by India.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • India
  • Fascinated

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Life
  • School
  • Experience

• I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Problem
  • Tools
  • Data

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cooking

• There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Team
  • Like
  • Feel

• As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Tree

• I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Successful
  • Possibly

• The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Illusions

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

  

  Ahmad Balshe
  • People
  • Artist
  • Affect

• Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Artist
  • Selfish
  • Good Reason