Ben Fountain Quotes
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.
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I always demand intensity in training. That's my style, and I like it.
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'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.
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I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn't work.
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My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.
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The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
