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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It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
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One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
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Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
