Ben Gillies Quotes
I really don't take any notice of girls in the audience. I really don't. I just play. I've got a shit view anyway. A couple of cymbals. I can't see jack.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.
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There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I really don't take any notice of girls in the audience. I really don't. I just play. I've got a shit view anyway. A couple of cymbals. I can't see jack.
