Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
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To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it's time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.
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Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
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And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?
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If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
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It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.
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Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.
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I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.
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Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.
