Ben Lerner Quotes

But these guys were also so pitiful—I pictured them sitting in their La-Z-Boys, working up the courage to make their obscene call, maybe jacking off after from all the excitement, if not during—I couldn’t really take them seriously, or only took them seriously as specimens of the ugly fragility of masculinity.

Ben Lerner

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• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Mind
  • Language

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • You
  • Doing

• I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Plan

• I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Want
  • Chill

• All records are not made to be broken.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Broken
  • Made
  • Records

• Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Food
  • Eating
  • Half

• Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Good
  • Government
  • Actor

• I'm never certain how to respond when an advocate on the other side of a case calls up images of patriots over the centuries who have sacrificed themselves to preserve our democracy.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Up
  • Democracy
  • Advocate

• Women will always control the experience on Bumble.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Control

• I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!

  

  Catharine Sedgwick
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Wonder

• I'm not radical.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Radical

• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Caring
  • Exciting

• But these guys were also so pitiful—I pictured them sitting in their La-Z-Boys, working up the courage to make their obscene call, maybe jacking off after from all the excitement, if not during—I couldn’t really take them seriously, or only took them seriously as specimens of the ugly fragility of masculinity.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Pictures
  • Excitement
  • Fragility