Ben Lyons Quotes
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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Act because you love to act.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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I will open an era of grand national unity.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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«And the European one?»
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
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The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.
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Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
