Vince Gilligan Quotes
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.
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I would like to direct.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.
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People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
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Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
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When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
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The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.
