Benjamin Watson Quotes
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
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I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
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I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
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Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.
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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
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Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.
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It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.
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I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
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We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
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One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women.
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Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.
