William Gaskill Quotes
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.
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There are two kinds of people - those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who are too busy to write about it because they're out doing it!
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A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.
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Policy is the people you work with.
