Ben Gillies Quotes

I like any woman. Older, younger. You know, a bit of variety. That's always good!

Ben Gillies Silverchair

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• Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Woman
  • Balance
  • Partner

• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Woman

• I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Lucky

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Woman

• PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Senior

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Looking

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Woman
  • Just

• I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Amazing
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Dead

• In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Woman
  • Sometimes
  • White

• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • She
  • Fashion

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• What I find kind of annoying as a woman, especially in this society, is how people like to support people who seem like they're struggling when it comes to artists.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • People
  • Society
  • Support

• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Woman
  • Needs
  • Suffices

• The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Kids

• What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • True
  • New
  • Often

• I like any woman. Older, younger. You know, a bit of variety. That's always good!

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Woman
  • Variety
  • I Like