Ben Zobrist Quotes
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The world needs some help.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.
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What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie, and you can't pretend to be someone you're not unless it's not going well and you never see them again. It never works if you try to make yourself seem like someone you're not, and you want to keep dating them. Be yourself. Don't embellish. It will always come back to get you.
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We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.
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I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.
