Ben Fountain Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
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Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I never listen to music when I'm writing.
