Campbell McGrath Quotes
What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this:
the story of a life. No more, no less.
Campbell McGrath
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
Hannibal Buress
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I had a very modest upbringing.
Balthazar Getty
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
Maajid Nawaz
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I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
Gary Numan
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The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
Ayelet Waldman
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My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
Chantal Akerman
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My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.
Lucy Deakins
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I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.
Dominick Cruz
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I watch college basketball and sports in general. I'm also a runner. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Central Park, so I try to squeeze in runs through Central Park when I can.
Adam Silver
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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.
Leon Trotsky
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead
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What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this:
the story of a life. No more, no less.
Campbell McGrath
