Ben Wheatley Quotes
If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.
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Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
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If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
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If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
