Luke Benward Quotes

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

Luke Benward

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• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • School
  • Power
  • Technology

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Mean

• We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Friends

• I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Better

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Celebrity
  • Go
  • Zero

• If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Done
  • Wrong

• Human trafficking is not a business model, it is a crime, and we are going to stop it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • Stop
  • Model

• Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Identity

• The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • World
  • War
  • Beginning

• You might also see why it seemed a bit odd, to Radchaai ears, to hear someone who believed gravity wells were the land of the dead call people superstitious for worshiping a lizard.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • People
  • Why

• My Shangri-la has gone away, Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain That came in somewhere softly from the blue.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • She
  • Blue
  • Rain

• When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Power
  • Running

• When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Summer

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• The end came off the edge and I missed an assignment there. I didn't get my guy.

  

  Cedric Benson
  • End
  • Edge
  • Missed

• Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Good
  • Past
  • Faith

• The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.

  

  John Ridley
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Law
  • Color
  • Equality

• I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

  

  Luke Benward