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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• 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.

  

  Questlove
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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.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
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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.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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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.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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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?'

  

  Carl Paladino
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• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
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• I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

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• Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.

  

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• I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

  

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

  

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• I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

  

  Avicii
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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.

  

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