Ben Harper Quotes
Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.
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In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
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Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
