Ben Yagoda Quotes
What’s the secret to a great popular song? It must be melodically simple and harmonically attractive.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
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I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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Life is like a balance sheet, you gain some, you lose some.
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Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.
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There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
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When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It's about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.
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What’s the secret to a great popular song? It must be melodically simple and harmonically attractive.
