Ben Richards Quotes

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

Ben Richards

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• I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Then

• To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Band
  • Cool

• The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Growing
  • Cutting

• I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Term

• I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Life
  • World
  • Fighting

• Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Born

• I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

  

  Steve Earle
  • People
  • Theory
  • Chef

• We want to undersell and overdeliver. We hopefully would be ensuring another period of sustained success.

  

  Tom Werner
  • Success
  • Period
  • Ensuring

• When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

  

  Paul Engle
  • Tragedy
  • Known
  • Marriages

• Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Stuff
  • Commercials
  • American History

• If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Children
  • Humans
  • Appear

• As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Working
  • Games
  • Benefits

• Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

  

  Rick Majerus
  • Basketball
  • Endeavor
  • Mercenary

• I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Surprised
  • Prize
  • Novelist

• Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

  

  Ernest Lehman
  • Decisions
  • Pictures
  • Screenwriter

• You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Life
  • Director
  • Screenwriter

• You're insane!" she shouted. "Pretty cool, huh?" "No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?" "More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. "Well, kind of. But you suck!

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Kind

• I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

  

  Ben Richards
  • Novelist
  • Screenwriter