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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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.
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The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.
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Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.
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Don't get me wrong: I love having my own song and being the center of attention, but I also love being part of the group and making the show work in a more anonymous way.
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The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
