Ben Hopkins Quotes
For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.
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For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.
