Benjamin Walker Quotes
I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I hate competition.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
