Karen Gillan Quotes
He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.
