Ben Schwartz Quotes
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.
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Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
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I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
