Ben Lerner Quotes
…the threshold between the hospital and its outside was like a threshold between worlds, between media.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
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…the threshold between the hospital and its outside was like a threshold between worlds, between media.
