Ben Affleck Quotes
The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
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I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
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If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc.
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You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
