Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) Quotes
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
