Ben Foster Quotes
The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.
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On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.
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I've got an incredible family that I never get to see. I've missed so much. They know how much my career means to me, and they allow me to go and be the workaholic that they never get to see. They support me in that.
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The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
