Ben Lerner Quotes
I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
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'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shillingYour ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
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It is a wonderful but daunting task that has fallen on me to say few words by way of opening this Forum, the greatest concourse of women (joined by a few brave men!) that has ever gathered on our planet. I want to try and voice some of the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific
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[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.
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I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?
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I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.
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I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.
