Ben Elliot Quotes
Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.
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But strength alone though of the Muses bornIs like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchresDelight it; for it feeds upon the burrs,And thorns of life; forgetting the great endOf poesy, that it should be a friendTo sooth the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
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I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
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I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
