Ben Elliot Quotes
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
