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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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
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When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers.
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Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
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Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!
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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.
