Ben Gillies Quotes
Daniel's pretty private, but being his friend I'd ask him "are you OK?' I'm just glad things are OK again and we're going on tour. I think finally we may be past that "teen band' crap and are now just "the Australian trio!
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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The team with the best players wins.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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I have played football all my life, and my dad went to see Manchester United in 2005. Since then, I have been a fan.
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Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
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I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
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I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
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That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.
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I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.
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I was in Redwood for almost six years. It was an acoustic trio that I still think was the best band I've ever been a part of. We do have a double CD of the Redwood stuff available called 'Lost But Not Really.' I'm very proud of the old Redwood stuff.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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Daniel's pretty private, but being his friend I'd ask him "are you OK?' I'm just glad things are OK again and we're going on tour. I think finally we may be past that "teen band' crap and are now just "the Australian trio!
