David Shrigley Quotes
I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
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Facts don't care about your feelings.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!
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I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.
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I owe a lot to my parents.
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I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.
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Books and people are hard to compare.
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God gave me everything I have.
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For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.
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The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
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I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
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I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
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People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.
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I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.
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I don't know what to say. Maybe the next game we do the same thing. Maybe we'll turn it on in the second half. Everybody has to function at the same time.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
