Ben Casnocha Quotes
It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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A miss is as good as a mile.
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I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
