Ben Schott Quotes
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
Quotes to Explore
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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Class is more important than a game.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.
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I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
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I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
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I grew up in Mumbai.
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I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
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That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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Tone of voice is more crucial than words.
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The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!
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I'm such a theater geek.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
