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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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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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.
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I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
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A happy wife is a happy life.
