Ben Lerner Quotes
Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.
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Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
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Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.
