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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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.
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No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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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.
