Benjamin Wiker Quotes
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
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After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”
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You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth