Ben Lovett Quotes
The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
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People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.
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Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
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Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
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My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.
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The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
