Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. Quotes
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'
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I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.
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It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.
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I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest of the world doesn't seem to care. I'm not sure whether they don't remember or whether they've just moved on from it. I was brought up in the glam era.
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When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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I prefer 'cooling foods' for the summer - lots of fruits like watermelons, a few strands of kesar with raisins that have been soaked overnight, and lots of coconut water. Dinner is usually dahi chawal. I am a big foodie, so depending on my cravings, I indulge - maybe pasta or risotto.
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Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
