"The interesting adults are always the school failures,……" — A. A. Gill
"The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule."
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22 Quotes by A. A. Gill
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of…
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could…
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's…
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a…
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day,…
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive…
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography -…
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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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