Ben Affleck Quotes
When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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I never thought about being famous.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
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There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.
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Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.
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I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.
