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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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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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'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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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 no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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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 miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast 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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The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.
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All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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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.
