Benny Green Quotes
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I drink a lot of water.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
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Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
