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It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.

Ben Affleck

I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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Balance Erase Experience Fabric Memories Myself
I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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Aspect Feeling Important Movie Myself
A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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Call Client Himself Question Reason Sale
I’m human, just like anybody else.
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Human Myself Nature
I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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Failure Myself Permission Success Try
I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Appearance Man Myself World
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People
How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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People Prayer Time Woman
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Beginning Myself Photography Writing
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Home Myself Time Woman
I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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Easy Feeling Force Myself Talent
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Evil Money Root Yourself
I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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Appearance Better Burn Learning

It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.

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It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.

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