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.
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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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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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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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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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I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.
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Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'
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I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them.
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You don't have to be blond or blue eyes or taller or smaller...just have to be who you need to be, and that's help people become who they are.
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When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.
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A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.
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If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.
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Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry.
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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.
