Ben Lerner Quotes
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.Ben Lerner
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Orison Swett Marden -
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
Olivia Williams -
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor -
There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
Flume -
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale -
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
W. Bruce Cameron -
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
Halldor Laxness -
I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
Ted Sarandos -
All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
Fernando Botero
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
Hank Azaria -
Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
Carlos Mesa -
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Ira Glass -
It is not characteristic of American executives to read books, except books on 'management' and mysteries. ... Those who who do venture into this arena ... are looked upon by their colleagues with mingled awe and incredulity.
C. Wright Mills -
Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles -
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde -
To do what I love every day and have the support of the fans, it does not happen like this all the time, so it is important to be thankful... I know it doesn't last forever, and we have to get it while we can.
Cole Swindell -
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.
Ben Lerner