Ben Foster Quotes
I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
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I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.
