Ben Foster Quotes
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.
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Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.
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When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.
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Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.
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I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
