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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
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• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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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.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
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• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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  • Mother
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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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Samantha Cameron
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  • Public
  • Twitter

• Science is about unravelling nature.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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  • Science
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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.

  

  Oona Chaplin
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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.'

  

  Jack Reynor
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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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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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.

  

  Foster Friess
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• I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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  • Wait

• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Talent

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
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  • Work
  • Writing

• I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

  

  Donna Tartt
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  • Writing
  • American

• 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.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Work
  • Feeling