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.
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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.
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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.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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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.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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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.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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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.
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When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.
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This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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Stand by those who stand by you.
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All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
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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.
