"You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off."

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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

A. A. Gill

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“Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.”
“It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.”

Source : Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.
“I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.”
“Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep, with the dog at your feet, his head resting on a shoe, and the clock's ticking like water dripping in a sink -- I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact, given the inherent cruelty of the world where beautiful things and people are blasted apart all the day long, I would never want to come back, knowing I could never be this lucky twice...”
“Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.”
“People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.”
“I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.”
“Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.”

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