Ben Lerner Quotes
Happy were the ages when the starry sky was the map of all possible paths, ages of such perfect social integration that no drug was required to link the hero to the whole.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
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I ask my close friends to give me feedback.
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I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'
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While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
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What you have with Mr. Trump is you have a clear leader, a person who - he said it best - is not going to be toyed with.
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I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.
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Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
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Happy were the ages when the starry sky was the map of all possible paths, ages of such perfect social integration that no drug was required to link the hero to the whole.
