Ben Gillies Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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I'm a gun owner.
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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
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I'm feeling good... I feel like sex.
