Ben Lewin Quotes
If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
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I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.
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They never fail who dieIn a great cause.
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If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
