Ben Schnetzer Quotes
A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
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It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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Stacy Schiff. 'The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village', The New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp. 46-55.
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You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.
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You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an expression of quiet understanding on her face. "Maybe you didn't, though," she said softly. "Lose it, I mean." "Lissa." "No, just hear me out." She looked out at the road for a second, then back at me. "Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.
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A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
