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 guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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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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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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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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If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
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I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.
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I think we are very much in the game but have some hard work to do tomorrow.
