Hannah Gadsby Quotes
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
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It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
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The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
