Adam Gilchrist Quotes
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?
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I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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In this altered situation, I have reached the decision that as the head of the party, I can better support the interests of the Christian Social Union in Munich.
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I think we are very much in the game but have some hard work to do tomorrow.
