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
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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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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart attack, it may be because you want the listener to exercise. Stories are tools to create social cohesion and to get humans to strategize together.
Peter Guber
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. Forster
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I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
Nelsan Ellis
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
Vicky McClure
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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
