Jim Gaffigan Quotes
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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It was OK, us being Reds during the war, because we were all on the same side. But then the Cold War started. Almost overnight we became enemies of people who were close friends - they crossed the street to avoid us.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
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I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.
