Ben Okri Quotes
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
F. Gary Gray
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
Mahershala Ali
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
Ted Nugent
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
Oliver Sim
The xx
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
A. S. Byatt
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Eckhart Tolle
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Ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές.
Aeschylus
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte
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The revelations of the Father and the Son are conveyed through the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the witness of and messenger for the Father and the Son.
David A. Bednar
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I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
Kat Graham
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In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
Beverley Mitchell
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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri
