Ben Simmons Quotes
For me, I always try and deliver. Regardless of the situation, I always try and play hard every time I step out on the court. If I don't deliver and play well, then I know I haven't been working hard enough.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I am healthy and happy.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
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Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.
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For me, I always try and deliver. Regardless of the situation, I always try and play hard every time I step out on the court. If I don't deliver and play well, then I know I haven't been working hard enough.
