Ben Gillies Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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I've traveled around the world.
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I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and as far as I was concerned a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.'
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Daniel is definitely not gay!
