Ben Marcus Quotes
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.
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A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
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I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.
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I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
