Ben Dolnick Quotes

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

Ben Dolnick

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Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Ang Lee

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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

Amity Shlaes

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My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.

Stan Lee

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I don't read work emails after 7 P.M. or on weekends.

Shonda Rhimes

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It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.

Rosamund Pike

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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

Rose George

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My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

Logan Marshall-Green

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Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

Joyce Meyer

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Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

Jonathan Groff

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If you open my wardrobe, it's very boring.

Domenico Dolce

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You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Denis Leary

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