Gavin Ewart Quotes
Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed.
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Women are raped and coerced into sex.
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It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning - I've based my entire career off of just trying to do that for them - but I always kind of forget that my real life friends can hear my music and they can watch my interviews if they want and that's when I get kind of like- "oh..." - I don't necessarily sit down and talk to my friends about all the things that I write my music about, because it's easier for me to write music than to sit and talk to my friends about it sometimes- it's almost like writing in a diary.
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I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.
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Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.
