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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What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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When I started acting, doing theater stuff at a young age, I was always the comic relief-type roles, so I knew I had a funny bone and could make groups of people laugh, but I didn't really take it seriously until I started getting paid on a weekly basis; then I was like, 'Oh, well, this could be a lifestyle.'
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In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.
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I always have high expectations for me.
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I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
