Ben Elliot Quotes
Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.
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After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'
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Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
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Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
