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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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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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 love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
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I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
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My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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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.
