Benny Blanco Quotes

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.

Benny Blanco

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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• Conscience is God present in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Through

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Looking Back

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• Although the 'far left' Justice Party is ostensibly in the opposition, 77% of those who support it say that President Moon is doing a good job.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Good
  • Job
  • Support

• When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Parents

• People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • People
  • Why

• Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Burning
  • Flame

• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Women
  • Black

• Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real