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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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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When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
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There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
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I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.
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Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
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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.
