Hannah Gadsby Quotes
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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There's no smoke and mirrors here.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.
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I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
