Ben Bass Quotes
'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.
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I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
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After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
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I was in Iowa one time, and I kept trying to fire up the crowd, and I kept saying, 'How's Ohio doing?' For some reason, they just weren't coming around!
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'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
