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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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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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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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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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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The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
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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.
