Ben Lee Quotes
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
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I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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Me.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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A possibility. Not today. Until he's done, he's a possibility.
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My sweet ass has been in this car.
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Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
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In the silence, hear what can't be heard.
