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
  • Hell

• 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

• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Science
  • Study

• Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Weird
  • Camping

• They finally pushed me out, It's cool though cos I hae a dog.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Cool
  • Dog
  • Pushed

• I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.

  

  Daniela Hantuchova
  • Great
  • Real
  • Experience

• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.

  

  Neil Genzlinger
  • Words
  • Style
  • Speech

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

  

  Ben Dolnick