Ben Dolnick Quotes

'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.

Ben Dolnick

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Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Joe Pantoliano

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Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

John Mayer

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Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.

Matthew Stewart

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When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Andy Serkis

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Steve Irwin

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Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Robin Gibb

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There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Mike Mills

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The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.

Louie Gohmert

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Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Autumn Reeser

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I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.

Ali Larter

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We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Polykarp Kusch

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