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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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
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I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don't have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don't do that stuff until I've got the words done for the day.
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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
