Ben Jonson Quotes
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.
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I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
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I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
