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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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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In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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Every game is important for us. We didn't act like it tonight.
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I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.
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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
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I think we are very much in the game but have some hard work to do tomorrow.
