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I think the most important education you can get for writing, music, and creativity is live. You can learn the book, but at some point you have to put the book on the shelf and realize that imagination comes before logic.


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BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT