Benjamin West Quotes
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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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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I hate birthdays.
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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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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
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I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
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Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?
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Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
