Eric Benet Quotes
I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?
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I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.
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In a typical day, I would wake up about 8 A.M., pile all my stuff into my mom's minivan - my guitar, my amp, CDs to sell, a table and a rug - drive it down to the street, and unload it all. I'd wait until about 12, then play for two hours. You could only play in two-hour intervals, so then I would move it all somewhere else.
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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
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I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.
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I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
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It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them
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As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
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Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.
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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
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I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.
