Ben Hopkins Quotes
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
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I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
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A lot of my queer development as a kid came from trawling the Internet.
