Hannah Gadsby Quotes

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

Hannah Gadsby

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• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Change
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • You
  • End
  • Afraid

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Losing
  • Circle

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • More
  • Making Money

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• 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.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Quality

• I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Want
  • China

• Quite honestly, I'm so happy to be Jonathan's wife and my children's mum that anything else is a bonus.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Wife

• A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Art
  • Criticism