Ben Jonson Quotes
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
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As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
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The funnest jokes for me to tell are the ones that are the newest. So I'm just constantly motivated to keep my eyes and ears open and have new stuff.
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
