Benjamin L. Corey Quotes
If there's one thing that moving beyond a fear-based faith taught me, it was that I wanted to be different, or rather, I began to see myself in my full complexity and realized that I was different--and I liked it.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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War is the province of danger.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.
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I didn't choose Goldberg because I wanted to be the flagship for the Jewish movement, not by any stretch of the imagination. I chose Goldberg because no one else can own it.
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The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is that two different theories that are too powerful must necessarily contradict each other.
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If there's one thing that moving beyond a fear-based faith taught me, it was that I wanted to be different, or rather, I began to see myself in my full complexity and realized that I was different--and I liked it.
