Ben Schwartz Quotes
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
Quotes to Explore
-
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
-
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
-
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.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
-
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
-
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.
-
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
-
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
-
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.
-
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
-
If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
-
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.
-
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
-
It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.
-
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
-
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
-
Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
-
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
