Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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Take the time to match your application to the company and the role you're applying for. Even if it means you're sending out fewer applications overall, I think that can be really powerful.
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Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.
