Benjamin Booker Quotes
Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I always want to think of myself as an underdog.
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It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
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Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
