"My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet."

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Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

Benjamin Percy

#Voice Quotes #Puppets Quotes #Might Quotes

“If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.”
“The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit.”
“Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.”
“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.9, Bantam
“If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?”
“How did her life live itself without her.”
“Perfection doesn't exist.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.”

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