Ben Gillies Quotes
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
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Aw..C'mon.. This has gone a bit too far now, don'tcha think?
