Ben Lerner Quotes
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
Ben Lerner
Quotes to Explore
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
M. J. Rose
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Dan Rather
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
Taylor Swift
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
Madhuri Dixit
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
Fat Joe
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
Jack O'Connell
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
Eddie Marsan
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A. S. Byatt
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien Hirst
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I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.
Mary Pope Osborne
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Kenneth Koch
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I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.
Pattie Boyd
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Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
Ben Lerner
