Ben Lerner Quotes
...it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he was not going to stop talking at any point in the meal.Ben Lerner
Quotes to Explore
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs -
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White -
I've always danced. I've always been around it.
Lacey Schwimmer -
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
Vic Morrow
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
Olivia De Havilland -
Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
Brown Campbell -
We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
Brown Campbell -
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
Captain Beefheart -
Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.
Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
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Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
Paul Watson -
My mother taught me how to write.
Kesha -
I want to try as many different roles as I can. I want to do everything.
Ana de Armas -
I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.
Jill Scott -
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
Bob Woodward -
Whatever your purpose is that leads you to the point of no return, that's where you go.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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The thing that gives me great hope is that I think, if anything, our world now is ready to be, like, 'This stuff happens.' We're not trying to pretend like terrible things don't happen, that uncomfortable situations, uncomfortable behavior, unhealthy behaviors don't occur in our daily lives.
Jessie Mueller -
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.
Anton Corbijn -
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
Margaret Fuller -
If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
Brad Feld -
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Darrell Royal -
...it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he was not going to stop talking at any point in the meal.
Ben Lerner