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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You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
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The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
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I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
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The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
