Ben Galley Quotes
I am not becoming someone different, I am simply getting to know the person I already am…
Quotes to Explore
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?
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I am not becoming someone different, I am simply getting to know the person I already am…
