Pat Gillick Quotes
My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
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Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
