Gavin Friday Quotes
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
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Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport.
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I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
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I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.
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For me, my brand is good storytelling.
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I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
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Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.
