Ben Gibbard Quotes
You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me

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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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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
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You're a light company, and that means you can go where other Soldier's can't. It makes you an elite. You know what that means? It means you're the best men in the bloody army, and right now the army needs its best men. It needs you.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.
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I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.
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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