Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
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I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
