Ben Lerner Quotes
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I just want to do my job.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
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It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
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I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.
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In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.
