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Ben E. King

"Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there."

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"Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there."

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Akshay Vasu

"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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Akshay Vasu

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

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Akshay Vasu

"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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Akshay Vasu

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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Akshay Vasu

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

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"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced."

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Ben E. King
"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."

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Ben E. King
"The industry now wants to be in charge of everything."

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Ben E. King
"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."

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Ben E. King
"Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist."

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Ben E. King
"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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Ben E. King
"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

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Ben E. King
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."

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Ben E. King
"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."

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Ben E. King
"He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies."

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Ben E. King
"When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us."

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