Ben Lerner Quotes
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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He seemed like a cool person to me. He sits by the benches with us while we are playing.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.
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I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.
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Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.
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A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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I am burying her every day. She was my baby and I loved my baby. She was an angel to everybody. There was nothing she wouldn't do for anybody.
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I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.
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The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
