Ben Barnes Quotes
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
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It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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Gender equality is more successful than armed force.
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There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.
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His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn’t have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.
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I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.
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I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
