Benjamin Ávila Quotes
I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.
