Benny Blanco Quotes
I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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I do not like violence.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
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Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
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It's one of those things: you can't really control how much you play or when you play, but when your number's called, I think if you make the most of your opportunities in this league, that's what makes good players. That's what I've tried to do in my short time being a starter, and good things have come from it.
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I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'
