Ben Schott Quotes
The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm not super into sports.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' which is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Iraq descended into chaos in the years after the American troop withdrawal at the end of 2011.
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I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'
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I'm still fiercely ambitious.
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The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
