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Ben Schwartz Quotes

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1981

Topics

Love Character Fun World Comedy Big

Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to widen its view and edit its erroneous perception of what a commercial black film can look like.

Success Perception Black View Help

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Good Wine Party Play Chili Serve

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Robert Green Ingersoll

World Action Road Through Holiness

If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.

Nature Mother Time Sleep Survive

I like taking the subway to work.

Work Subway Like Taking

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

Strength Character Courage Society

Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

Kiss World Makeup Rock And Roll Rock

I got a bike - a fixed-gear with bright blue wheels, custom-made to my specifications. I am a San Francisco techno-hipster, so this selection was a bit of a self-caricature. But sometimes the predictable thing turns out to be the best thing, too, and you can't let that stop you.

Best Bike I Am Blue You Stop

Monetary policy should never have been expected to shift economies to a sustainably higher growth trajectory by itself.

Growth Never Policy Shift Been

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

Voice Perfect Play Sound Human High

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

Derek Cianfrance

Me Feel Movies Why Understand Need

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

Christopher Judge

Mind Think Actor Never Anything Saw

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