Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
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You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
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I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
