Benjamin Stone Quotes
Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.
Quotes to Explore
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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You face racism in small and large ways.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.
