Adam Gilchrist Quotes

On reflection, I think I was too focused on saving the game, ... I should have played naturally. I was too entrenched in a match-saving mindset.

Adam Gilchrist

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Struggle

• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

  Randall Park
  • Kind
  • Stupid
  • Offensive

• I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Want
  • Actress
  • Only

• When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Small
  • Chinese
  • First

• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Singer
  • My Own

• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Battle
  • Goddess

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Party

• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Young
  • Looking
  • Portfolio

• I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Always
  • Boxing
  • Boxed

• I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Why
  • Education
  • Support

• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Man
  • First
  • Principles

• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Food
  • Said

• I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

  

  Carl Barks
  • World
  • Writing
  • Human

• When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Together
  • Imagination

• Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Morning

• Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Great
  • Country

• My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Guy
  • Black

• If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

  

  John le Carre

• The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.

  

  Geoffrey Gorer
  • Animal
  • Latin
  • Gentle

• On reflection, I think I was too focused on saving the game, ... I should have played naturally. I was too entrenched in a match-saving mindset.

  

  Adam Gilchrist
  • Game
  • Focused
  • Match