Ben Jonson Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
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Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
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Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
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I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
