Ben Lerner Quotes
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I just want to make everyone happy.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.
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I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
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I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.
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I'm an all-American girl.
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What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
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I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
