Ben Gillies Quotes
We just wanted to go over to Daniel's house with a lump of meat and go, 'EAT IT!
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.
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There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.
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We just wanted to go over to Daniel's house with a lump of meat and go, 'EAT IT!
