Ben Moody Quotes
Now it's cool to like Kelly Clarkson, so I'm in the clear, ... She's kind of popular now.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
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I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.
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I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.
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Now it's cool to like Kelly Clarkson, so I'm in the clear, ... She's kind of popular now.
