Ben Barnes Quotes
I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
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For me, taking care of your skin is the most important step. You can cover it with all the makeup you have, and it's still not as nice as beautiful skin.
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.
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It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.
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I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
