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.

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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.
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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.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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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.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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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.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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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.
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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.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
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Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.
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I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.
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I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.