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Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943

Topics

Truth Truth Is Die You Too Much Eat

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

Jesse Eisenberg

Success Better You Look Bad Movies

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

Andrew Sean Greer

Empathy Writing Fiction Act

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

Melvin Van Peebles

You Know Movies Never West Role

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

Selfish Think Athlete Pretty I Think

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

People Know Reminisce Like

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Moving On People Me Start Grow Know

I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.

I Am Think Artist Who Songs I Think

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

Jonathan Tropper

Child Book Own Like Your Performing

I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

Character Proud Story Think Doing

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

Kind Dentist Like Trips Postpone

I'm always working on new projects.

New Always Working Projects

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

Chrisette Michele

Love Time School People Laugh Nice

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