Ben Sherwood Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I don't hold grudges.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.
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...the enduring human need to be remembered.
