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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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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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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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
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The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization.
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I have always loved watermelon and relish any opportunity to eat it, whether plain or diced up with feta and mint and tossed with a little olive oil. It makes me think of summertime. On set and at home, I try to always have a container of watermelon sprinkled with cinnamon because it elevates the flavor just a notch and makes it feel special.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
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If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
