Ben Lerner Quotes

Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.

Ben Lerner

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Why
  • Imagination

• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • May
  • Criticism

• To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• You're born with a certain love of something. Music was my first love, and that's the world I work from. Growing up, I was surrounded by artists, so my upbringing supported this lifestyle.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

  

  Bob Kerrey
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• I am a mom as well as a senator!

  

  Patty Murray
  • Mom

• Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

  

  James Lankford
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Star
  • Dying

• My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Time

• You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.

  

  Bradley Wiggins

• There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Great
  • Truth

• Actors are responsible to the people we play.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • People

• Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Positive
  • Darkness
  • Negative

• You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Humor
  • Fraudulence

• I'm going to address the team and try to set down some parameters as to how we're going to deal with it, ... This is something now that we seriously have to take as another type of an issue, where there's a certain sense of where our privacy lies and where the boundaries lie, that we're going to have to address and we're going to have to be serious about it.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Serious
  • Lies

• Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!

  

  Mark Hadlow
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Star
  • Stars
  • Knowing

• Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Fraudulence