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 feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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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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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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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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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
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I never listen to music when I'm writing.
