Ben Watt Quotes
I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid.
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The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.
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I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!
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Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.
