Jim Gaffigan Quotes
There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
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There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.
