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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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
