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.
R. Kelly
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
Beatrice Dalle
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller
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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.
Sally Mann
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong
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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.
Karl Abraham
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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.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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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.
Yehuda Amichai
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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.
Edmund Wilson
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One who is persistent will excel.
Venus Williams
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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.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
Manju Warrier
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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?
Mandy Patinkin
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
La Monte Young
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What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.
Jacqueline Woodson
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When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
Z'EV
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I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
Barbara Demick
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Walter Bagehot
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I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
Benjamin Percy