Ben Schwartz Quotes
I think it's always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.
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As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
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Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
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Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.
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Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.
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I think it's always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.
