Ben Gillies Quotes
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Oh look! There it is! Look! Look! It's the local erotic shop!
