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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I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
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I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.
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If you do a quantity challenge, the problem you'd face would be a starchy challenge. If it has a lot of potatoes, a lot of bread or fried elements, that's difficult. With heat challenges, challenges that use the whole pepper are much, much easier than ones that use pepper extract. That's concentrated, and also devoid of flavour. It's just heat.
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Full disclosure: I've never read 'Eat Pray Love,' nor have I even seen the movie.
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If you want it, and you want to get it, then you've got to work hard for it, like Tupac was working hard for it.
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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.
