Ben Gillies Quotes
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.
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I certainly know that I owe it the Copernican theory this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.
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You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.
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A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
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About this time [late 1950s], CinemaScope was getting popular. I wanted to have nothing to do with it, and consequently I shot more close-ups and used shorter shots.
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I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.
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I want to be in Chicago. I'd like to.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.
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There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
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Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
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I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.
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Can I embrace Christ with His cross?
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I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
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I gave Daniel a black eye!
