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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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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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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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.
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I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
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I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.
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I get that a lot because I've hung around with a lot of artists and I'm very close to a lot of them. I'm very involved in their work; I think a lot of my ideas have grown out of it, and that there's been some give and take.
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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.
