Ben Dolnick Quotes

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

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• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  

  Man Ray
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Determination

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Cool

• I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Know
  • Moments

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Break

• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wishes

• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • American
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Think
  • Try
  • Supernatural

• America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Law
  • Child

• I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Community
  • Media
  • Trans

• They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • May
  • True

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Time
  • Job
  • Working

• I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Work
  • Women
  • Independent

• Mugger: Your money or your life.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Life
  • Money

• I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying

• I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Home
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Political
  • Presidential

• I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Up
  • Powerful

• Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Conscious

• I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

  

  Ben Dolnick