Ben Schott Quotes

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

Ben Schott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 26, 1974

Topics

JobSchoolMeStoryYouHoliday

There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.

Jimmy Chin

HistoryMountainYourselfPeopleYou

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

FearAloneGreatExperienceWarMe

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LoveDominateDoes

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Andrew Motion

PoetryNameYouWantKindWay

Scars are the price you pay for success.

Melvin Van Peebles

SuccessYouPriceScarsPay

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Amy Winehouse

YourselfSchoolThoughtHelpYou

There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.

Stephen Hough

MusicHealthCareMental Health

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

Robert Duvall

LiveCharacterChallengeMeAction

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

DeathEndingStoryMeaningTiming

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

Lou Brock

BaseballBackManagerComingWould

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

Douglas Coupland

MoneyMenMadThreeMoreSeason

I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

Daya

CreativePeopleControlBrandFake

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