Ben Kweller Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.
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It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.
