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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My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
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I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.
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We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.
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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.
