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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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
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I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
