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 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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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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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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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
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I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.
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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.
