Robert Benton Quotes

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Robert Benton

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I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.

Joe Piscopo

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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Andrew O'Hagan

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I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

Meghan Trainor

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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

Matthew Desmond

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I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Ani DiFranco

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I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Stephen Harper

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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Tom Waits

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New York is my favorite city to visit because there is always something to do, someone to meet, and something to discover.

Michael Seibel

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I think we would define the role for us in the future as helping customers in what we would call an energy-banking concept.

Debra L. Reed

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When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

Cheryl Hines

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I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor.

Anushka Sharma

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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

Allan Gurganus

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