Josh Gad Quotes
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'
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Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
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You have to make it happen.
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I really like 'ICO' and 'Shadow of the Colossus.'
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Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
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I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
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I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.
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The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.
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Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
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When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
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I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
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One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement - and the many, many like-minded citizens that don't participate in the Tea Party movement - is the fact that it is independent.
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I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
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In almost every edition (and consequently most performances) of Chopin's Sonata in B flat Minor, Op. 35, there is a serious error that makes awkward nonsense of an important moment in the first movement. The repeat of the exposition begins in the wrong place.
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We are still very much annoyed by out-of-date notions of time. Please, would you throw away your watches! At least toss aside the minutes and hours. Obviously we all realize that we are not everlasting. Our fear of death has inspired the creation of beautiful works of art. And this was a fine thing, too. However, our only eternal possession will be change.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
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I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.
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We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.
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I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
