Ben Mikaelsen Quotes
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
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The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.
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I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
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I'm the kind of person where I look to myself a lot on how I can get better. What little, nuanced differences can I make?
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It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
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Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.
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Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.
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To me, point of view is everything.
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Why live if you can’t help others and make the world a better place?
