Ben Jonson Quotes
Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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People work hard.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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'Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?' - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
