Ben Lerner Quotes
How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?
Ben Lerner
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
Taylor Momsen
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
Eddie Redmayne
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
Joanne Rowling
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
Naomi Klein
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand
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It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
Taylor Swift
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I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
Ori Gersht
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
Iggy Azalea
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If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.
Carol Bartz
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
Taylor Dane
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Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.
Marian Keyes
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Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.
Charlie Munger
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
Eddie Marsan
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How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?
Ben Lerner
