Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
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It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
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I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.
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If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
