David Gill Quotes
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
