Louis C. K. Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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And that's the way it is.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
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America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
