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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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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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 don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.
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Everything inspires me, but when it comes to chemistry, and when it comes to the ups and downs of relationships, that's what's real for people.
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I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.
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To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.
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Words for being lost or for being found.
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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.
