"It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to."

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Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

Robert Benton

#Interesting Quotes

“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.”
“My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.”
“Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.”
“If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.”
“The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.”
“Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.”
“I'm lucky to have friends who inspire me all the time. Watching other people teaches me and helps me to carve out my own sound. We're all just recycling on our influences. What you hear is the sound of those artists swirling around our insides and finding their way back out somehow.”
“There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.”

Source : Interview with Carla Rupp, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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