Gordon Sinclair
Gordon Sinclair
Allan Gordon Sinclair, OC, FRGSwas a Canadian journalist, writer and commentator...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 June 1900
CountryCanada
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Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
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I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
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I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.
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Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.
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I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.
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I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.
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I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'
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So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
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If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.
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I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.
You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.
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When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
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As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
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Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.