Benjamin Stone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
-
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
-
It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
-
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
-
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
-
I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
-
I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
-
'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
-
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
-
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
-
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
-
When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
-
The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
-
I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
-
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
-
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
-
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
-
I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
-
I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
-
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
-
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
-
Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.
-
Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.
