Andrew Benintendi Quotes
Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
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I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.
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The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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Poetry is when you talk to yourself.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
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Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.
