Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes
The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.
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You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with the whole. This is what should be asked for, not for all other things that people ask for. Isn't it? That's the truth. You have to achieve it, to be in your collective consciousness.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
