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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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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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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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.
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I'm not interested in publicity for myself.
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Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.
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The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.
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Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.
