Ben Lerner Quotes
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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He measures our lives by how we love.
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Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
