Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I love tearing people's speakers up.
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In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
