Benjamin Ávila Quotes
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
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I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
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As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.
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The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
