Ben Affleck Quotes
But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.
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When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.
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I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.
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I would say the Go-Go's are pretty iconic but don't know if I'd refer to myself like that.
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But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.
