Ben Gillies Quotes
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.
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Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.
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I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
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Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
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I think friendship is learning from Leeeuk hyung in Super Junior. Oh, I know, friendship is Super Junior.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as individuals are really fraught but also can be really wonderful and we're all navigating this reality to the best of our abilities. But, again, I wanted to take a step back and look at the broader context.
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I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
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When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.
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Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
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I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I'd love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I'm also working on getting some new music out of my own.
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I use my voice as an instrument.
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It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.
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By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.
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And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
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Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
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We're going for a bit of a boogie.
