Benita Valente Quotes

Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.

Benita Valente

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• I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Way
  • Language
  • Feel

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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  • Day
  • Where

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Way
  • City
  • Travel

• To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Way
  • Talk
  • Roll

• When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Way
  • Find
  • Down

• We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Always
  • More

• I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Way
  • Growth
  • Down

• Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
  • You
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• I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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  • Easy
  • Hustle

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Way
  • Economic
  • Own

• I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Way
  • Paper
  • Bag

• A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

  

  William Foege
  • Knows
  • Thanks
  • Disease

• I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Prove
  • Lie
  • Spirits

• Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.

  

  Benita Valente
  • Way
  • Screamer
  • Stabber