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've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'
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Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.
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For me, fashion means dare. I don't mind wearing a bikini. I am okay with it.
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Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
