Ben Lerner Quotes
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.
