Ben Barnes Quotes
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun All covered with flowers still having your fun
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Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
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Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.
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Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
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It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.
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I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.
