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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben Jonson
Mind
Fury
Punishment
Delight
Like
Itself
Vice
Vicious
Turns
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
Ben Katchor
Me
World
Books
Bookstores
Kid
Objects
Small
Like
Know
Unusual
Comic
How
Comics
Came
Were
Edward
Fit
Newspaper
Really
Across
Things
Early
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
Ben Katchor
You
People
Trouble
Own
Doubt
Doubting
Batteries
Would
Would-Be
Had
Like
Know
Always
Clocks
Just
Dying
Public
Your
Why
Watch
Watches
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
Ben Katchor
You
Remember
Cheese
Alien
Country
Smell
Every
Paper
About
Touch
Could
Had
Feel
Like
Piece
Exhibit
Were
Child
Soviet
Going
Soviet Union
Different
Union
Ink
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Ben Kingsley
Religion
Class
Hierarchy
Rigid
London
Like
Still
Certain
Certain Extent
Extent
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
Ben Kingsley
Silence
You
Cinema
Language
Think
More
Like
Theater
I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
Ben Kingsley
Would
Embrace
Absolutely
Clear
Like
Make
Arms
Known
Loud
Five
Being
Villain
Bond
Program
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
Ben Kingsley
Me
Though
Per
Both
Almost
Stepping
Hour
Like
Another
Off
Going
Boat
Boats
Asked
Miles
Gandhi
Even
I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.
Ben Linder
War
Hide
Strong
Safe Place
Care
Enough
Hunger
Kids
See
Give
Taking
Feel
Like
Safe
Until
Becomes
Stops
Place
Them
Deserve
Away
I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or anything. I just feel like my life is better without it.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Life
Facebook
Better
My Life
Twitter
Feel
Like
Without
Just
Anything
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
Ben Lovett
Success
Funny
Music
Think
Imagination
Guess
Bit
Something
More
Obscure
Had
Touring
Like
Perhaps
Leave
American
Quite
Maybe
Which
Explanation
Might
Noticed
Who
Acts
Shy
British
'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
Ben Lovett
Me
Strange
Song
Somebody
Definitely
Slowly
Like
Know
Does
Odd
Opposite
Did
Quite
Vibe
Just
Different
Mean
Video
Used
Actually
Enjoyable
Lured
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
Ben Marcus
Grief
Big
Thomas
Like
Read
Doses
Richard
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
Ben Marcus
Work
Darkness
Negative
Feeling
Sense
Think
Enormous
Thomas
Books
Relentless
Some
Pursuit
Like
Supposed
His
Fan
It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.
Ben Mendelsohn
Good
People
Beginning
Assumption
More
Like
Got
Lot
Up
Being
Ends
Room
Really
Novel
Nuance
Started
Science is a hobby, and I'm really into it, but it's not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker's love of football or Rod Stewart's obsession with train sets.
Ben Miller
Love
Me
Science
People
Comedy
Job
Sets
Bit
Danny
Laugh
About
Football
Obsession
Like
Baker
Make
Learn
Rod
Train
Hobby
Really
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
Ben Miller
Science
World
Comedy
Way
Would
About
Like
Same
Really
Things
I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.
Ben Miller
Silence
Problem
Money
Try
Analysis
Type
Sometime
Throw
Never
Had
Like
Done
Psychotherapy
Suffer
Actually
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
Ben Miller
Writing
Like
Doing
Much
Acting
Things
Presenting
I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
Ben Miller
Work
Myself
Think
Focused
Obsessive
Like
Across
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Ben Okri
Creative
Book
Writing
Reading
Range
See
Only
Like
Readers
Narrow
Reflected
Themselves
Then
Act
Creative Act
Bring
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
Ben Okri
Future
You
Together
Strange
Past
Jazz
Kind
About
Come
Like
How
Africa
Strange Thing
Rough
Thing
Present
I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
Ben Peek
Environmental
Myself
Food
You
People
Hide
Gone
Herd
Alive
Hidden
Could
Sacrificing
Like
Know
Alright
Robots
Middle
Where
Gonna
Apocalypse
If I Could
Avoid
Keep
Zombies
We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
Ben Platt
Time
Best
Me
People
Father
Job
Earning
Would
Would-Be
Through
Clear
Like
Know
Him
Learn
Because
Making
Dumb
Same
Done
Same Time
Experiences
Ignore
Ignoring
Who
Things
Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.
Ben Rattray
Experience
Treat
Giving
Way
Machines
Charities
Some
Cash
More
Like
Until
Been
Provide
Effective
Effective Way
Personal
Any
Donors
Interactive
Them
Now
We don't have to kind of be in cycles of conflict if we can find other ways to resolve these issues. We can do things that challenge the conventional thinking that, you know, 'AIPAC doesn't like this,' or 'the Israeli government doesn't like this,' or 'the Gulf countries don't like it.' It's the possibility of improved relations with adversaries.
Ben Rhodes
Government
You
Conflict
Challenge
Thinking
Resolve
Other
Relations
Ways
Possibility
Kind
Find
Gulf
Countries
Adversaries
Like
Know
Israeli
Israeli Government
Issues
Improved
Conventional
Cycles
Things
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