Ben Affleck Quotes

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Ben Affleck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1972

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Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

Jenny Zhang

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This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.

John M. McHugh

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As a kid, I was hyperactive and the naughty one in school. I wouldn't listen to anyone and thought I knew best. At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone.

Amir Khan

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I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

Rob Van Dam

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There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Roberto Assagioli

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The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

Moby

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We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

Dean Devlin

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Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

Brian Schatz

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I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Anna Torv

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Alfred North Whitehead

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All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

William Wells Brown

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My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.

Tina Fey

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