Jim Gaffigan Quotes
Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.Jim Gaffigan
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
Ram Charan -
It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
Zach Cregger -
After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian McShane -
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
Laura Wasser
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
Malorie Blackman -
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable -
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks -
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
Laura Benanti -
I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
Frances O'Grady -
The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
Pat Burns
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
Samantha Shannon -
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
Damien Hirst -
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson -
In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
J. C. Watts -
My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
Adam Ferrara -
My dad was so much fun growing up.
Abby Elliott
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We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.
Marcel Proust -
Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
Alan Sillitoe -
... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.
Ed Zern -
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
Rachel Joyce -
I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.
Steven Soderbergh -
Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.
Jim Gaffigan