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The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Ben Vereen

I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.
BEN VEREEN

Care Desire People Want
Everyone I’ve worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what’s good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.
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Everyone Good Learn
The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
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Appreciation Dedication Hard Work
I used to dance, but now I only move.
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Dance Moving Used
People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it’s a real thing – the more love we spread around the world the more it’s going to change lives.
BEN VEREEN

Changing Life People Real
As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.
BEN VEREEN

Doctors Thinking Together
I love sharing my story. It’s endlessly healing.
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Endlessly Healing Stories
I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.
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Broadway Theatre Groups People
I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what’s going on.
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Going Grandchildren Grandpa Keep
Our creator says, ‘Here’s your birth and here’s your death’ – and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience – and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
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Choices Journey Moving
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you’ll get good things back. That’s part of our responsibility as entertainers.
BEN VEREEN

Better Plant Responsibility Tomorrow
You’ve got to make haste while it’s still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don’t want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
BEN VEREEN

Light Long People
The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
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Creative Stage Trying
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
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Daughter Mother Tragic
Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn’t fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don’t know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
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Fall Thinking Years
I didn’t know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
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Backstage Knows Mets

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

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