Benjamin Walker Quotes
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
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It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.
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Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
