Ben Wheatley Quotes
If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
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Corot spoiled the 'étude' study we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.
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Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.
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I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.
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Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.
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If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.
