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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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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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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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
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What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.
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If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Policy is the people you work with.
