Ben Lerner Quotes
I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.
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Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
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I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.
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Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
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I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.
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In a while, one of us will go up to bedand the other one will follow.Then we will slip below the surface of the nightinto miles of water, drifting down and downto the dark, soundless bottomuntil the weight of dreams pulls us lower still.
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
