Ben Affleck Quotes
Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
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Obama had the wherewithal to muscle through an entire health care reorganization, right? Like it, don't like it, whatever.
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War is the province of danger.
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People in new environments always produce the new preceptual modality without any difficulty or awareness of change. It is later that the psychic and social realignments baffle societies.
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I no longer think you can live without passion.
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Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.
