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Ben Kingsley Quotes

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: December 31, 1943

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Think Name Career Same Curve Would

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

Good Power Simple Thought Guitar

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

Love Music Time Happy Child People

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Life Learn Rope Knots

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

Home Teacher School Me High School

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

Music Child College White Got Kids

We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

Conflict Think Name Enemy Islam

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

Good Great People Me End You

There's nobody, pound-for-pound, that has what I have.

I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District.

Loretta Sanchez

Best Grateful Job I Am People World

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Women Honor You Know Never Hold

Insecurity is a waste of time.

Diane von Furstenberg

Time Insecurity Waste Waste Of Time

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

Adventure American Making Made

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