Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
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Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.
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Halloween is woke, and there's nothing we can do about it.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
