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Ben Folds Quotes

The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1966

Topics

Business Group Intelligent Monster

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

Melissa Gilbert

Love Small Talk Days Small Talk

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

Regret Never Jokes Greatest Been

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'

Losing People Constitution American

When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the daily 'New York Times' and one in the weekly 'New York Times Book Review,' too, for good measure. But by and large, it was not a conversation-generating book.

Good Daily New York Small Book New

Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Work Mother Home Day Speak Language

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

Ideas Background Offer Interested

My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years old and hearing that.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Father Memory Old Him Hearing Up

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

Christian Slater

Father Job Me Performance Saying Go

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

Bozoma Saint John

Me Utopia See Anywhere

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Character Say Lying Inside Dive Who

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

Think Someone Said Now Never Fair

There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story.

Stars Community Great Day Story You

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