Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?
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My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
