Benjamin Percy Quotes
I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
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I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was living here in New York. I just popped up. She had her baby and a husband, and I just popped up. 'Hey, what's up? I got $200 and dreams. Let's do this.'
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Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends fifteen minutes with fools of this kind, it is merely a way of passing the time. I've now got more important things to do. Goodbye!
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I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.
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I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.
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It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.
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I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.
