Benjamin Hoff Quotes
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.
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Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.
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With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
