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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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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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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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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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 [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or a social issue or innovation of some kind; whether it was how we told the stories or what stories we told. We produced some online videos.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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People get angry at others who express a different opinion, while, in fact, they should be angry at themselves. But we must be angry at ourselves the most when we say something today, only to say something else tomorrow.
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.
