Ben Cross Quotes
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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I never did anything dishonest.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
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Do I believe in love at first sight? I think, like anything, you fall in love, and you see how things progress.
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I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
