Ben Gibbard Quotes
You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
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I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
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There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.
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She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.
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You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me
