Peter Serafinowicz Quotes
The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.
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I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.
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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
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When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
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The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
