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'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 key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
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The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
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I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.
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You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.
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It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (p. 9)
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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.
