Ben Affleck Quotes
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
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We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy. I'll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I've seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material.
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A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
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Most of all I was numb, but there were moments when the pain cut through like a shard of broken glass. I began to understand how despair led people to just cash it in; how suicide wasn't just an option but a rational option.
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One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
