Ben Gillies Quotes
Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
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I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.
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I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine.
