Benjamin Percy Quotes
I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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I'm super shy, especially at parties.
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All the ladies can feel sexy and have fun in my clothing and that makes me feel like I am offering something truly unique to the people who have been gracious enough to show me such love and support over the years.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
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It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.
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I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
