A. A. Gill Quotes

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A. A. Gill

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 28, 1954

The answer is that if God exists, he doesn't seem to mind if you believe in him or not.

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No British TV company could ever make a series like 'The West Wing' about British politics. It would beggar credibility. No one could write it with a straight face, or perform it without giggling.

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When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.

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Shorts are silly. Men in shorts are silly men. And silly is the very worst thing a man can be.

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It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

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For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

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Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it smell better, but the idea that has pushed our lives into the light more than any other -ism or -ology is feminism.

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The problem with a man bag is that it's called a man bag.

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I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

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Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.

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Have you ever wondered why the rich and privileged care about, or even bother with, the gift bag? Because they don't need this stuff. If they wanted it, they could afford to buy it, without blinking. But they love the gift bag, beyond reason.

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Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

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The only acceptable cravat is the original Croat one.

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Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

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Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.

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Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

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The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.

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I'm terribly prone to anxiety. I get very depressed and I get very anxious and my anxiety is almost always about my children.

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Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

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And learn to tie a bow - it's not difficult and there's no excuse for either a clip-on or the hideous Hollywood straight tie.

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