Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I am a just man.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
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The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
