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 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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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do I think that it was easier for me because at a certain point in my career I didn't have children? Yeah, I think absolutely so. But everybody has their own deal.
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
