Ben Galley Quotes

People say a story is a window into another mind, another world. I believe they are more mirrors that windows. In them, we glimpse ourselves dressed up as the characters. And like any reflection, the truth we see can be hard to swallow.

Ben Galley

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• Story
• Reflection
• I Believe
• Characters

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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Start

• It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

  

  Young Buck
  • Me
  • Story
  • Honor

• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  

  Karen Black
  • Believe
  • America
  • Sorry

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Child
  • End

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Think
  • Find
  • Waves

• All the things that are in the past are in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • Things
  • In The Past

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Why
  • High

• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Awesome

• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Single
  • Problems

• Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Anxiety

• I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Follow
  • Anywhere
  • Ben

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Own
  • Oil

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.

  

  Roman Reigns
  • Live
  • Family
  • Remember

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  

  Manny Farber
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth

• People say a story is a window into another mind, another world. I believe they are more mirrors that windows. In them, we glimpse ourselves dressed up as the characters. And like any reflection, the truth we see can be hard to swallow.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Truth
  • Story
  • Reflection