Lawrence Bender Quotes
There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
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There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
