Ben Galley Quotes
I supposed when you had immortality to waste, spending it on books wasn’t such a bad idea. I saw the sense in it. Books – at least the good sort – were doors into worlds beyond our miserable own.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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I have an incredibly high metabolism.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.
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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.
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I supposed when you had immortality to waste, spending it on books wasn’t such a bad idea. I saw the sense in it. Books – at least the good sort – were doors into worlds beyond our miserable own.
