Karl Pilkington Quotes
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
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Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
