Joe Gilgun Quotes
I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.
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Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
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These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.
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I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.
