Ben Schnetzer Quotes

I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

Ben Schnetzer

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• Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Husband

• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Future
  • Say
  • United States

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • Caring

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Common Sense

• One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Care
  • Wanted

• I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Changes

• I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Know

• It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • You
  • Difficult
  • Flying

• I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.

  

  Douglas R. Oberhelman
  • People
  • School
  • High

• We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Leader

• I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Money
  • Fear
  • Fly

• I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Good
  • Real
  • School