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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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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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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I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.
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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
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I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.
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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
