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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I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to 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 wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
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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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I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.
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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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Spying on our citizens? That's just wrong.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
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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.
