Gavin Lyall Quotes
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.
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By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways.
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Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?
