Karl Pilkington Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I never read about photography.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
