Ben Affleck Quotes
(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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Every great idea starts out as blasphemy.’ If there is resistance, it means that the direction is right.
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It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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Once you find your lane, you can't cruise;
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I've always been a wriggler. I just dig dancing.
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
