Andrew Gilligan Quotes
Not content with covering one divisive subject today, I've also done a piece about Boris Johnson. It's not blind to his flaws but argues for a bit more nuance in how we see him...
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
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There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
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He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.
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...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
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Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
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I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
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I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.
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Not content with covering one divisive subject today, I've also done a piece about Boris Johnson. It's not blind to his flaws but argues for a bit more nuance in how we see him...
