Joe Gilgun Quotes
It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
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John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.
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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
