Ben Okri Quotes
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
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In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.
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If you had been there, you would have beshit yourself, believe me.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
