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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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
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This body is the seat of all good and bad.
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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.
