Adam Gilchrist Quotes
I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
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I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
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I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.
