Ben Fountain Quotes
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
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People take things so seriously.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
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Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.
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One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
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No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
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I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
