Benny Blanco Quotes
Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
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Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
