Benji Madden Quotes
You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.
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He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
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'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'
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I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.
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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.
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Truth is life's most precious commodity.
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
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It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
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Gerald is the eternal optimist who has what could be perceived as a handicap -he can't speak - but he figures out clever ways to communicate ideas so he doesn't let it stop him. He goes through life with rose-colored glasses and doesn't think 'I can't.' I think that's a great character to put out there for kids.
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You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.
