Ben Marcus Quotes
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
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No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.
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I don't do much research on the Internet.
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I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
