Ben Lerner Quotes
It was worse than having a sinking feeling; I was a sinking feeling, an unplayable adagio for strings; internal distances expanded and collapsed when I breathed.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm: all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others...
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It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.
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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.
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Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process.
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Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
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I learned the tricks of the tangeros, those intuitive tricks that helped me later on. I couldn't define them technically; they are forms of playing, forms of feeling; it's something that comes from inside, spontaneously.
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
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Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
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It was worse than having a sinking feeling; I was a sinking feeling, an unplayable adagio for strings; internal distances expanded and collapsed when I breathed.
