Benh Zeitlin Quotes
I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
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People that aren't special, people that don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA (The Today Show)
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.
