Ben Lerner Quotes
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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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.'
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Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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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.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
