Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.
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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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Even before IIT, I always had an inclination to do something, even when I was in school.
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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
