Ben Affleck Quotes
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
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That which is imagined need never be lost.
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I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
