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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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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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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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
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My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for 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.
