Ben Barnes Quotes
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
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You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
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There are loads of websites devoted to me.
