Ben Gillies Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
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Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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I'm not joking. Does anyone want a date?
