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 have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
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You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
