Hannah Gadsby Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution.
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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.
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I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'
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Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
