Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
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I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
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Some days you have it; some days you don't.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
