Joe Gilgun Quotes

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

Joe Gilgun

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• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • You
  • Modern
  • Whatever

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • City
  • Road

• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Career
  • Me
  • Path

• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
  • Land
  • Israel

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Attractive

• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • People
  • Business
  • Past

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • Risk
  • Order

• To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Read

• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Inspired
  • Write
  • Terrified

• A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • World
  • Book

• I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Work
  • Book
  • Reading