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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The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
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Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
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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.
