Karen Gillan Quotes
I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.
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I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
