Benjamin West Quotes
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We were descended from royalty.
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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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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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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 have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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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 would definitely love to be a parent.
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I hate birthdays.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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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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Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.
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It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.
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An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
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Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
