Ricky Gervais Quotes

What makes 'Derek' a different kind of sitcom - if it is even a sitcom - is its sincerity.

Ricky Gervais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 25, 1961

Topics

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I love the sun; I would have trouble living in Canada.

Joel Robuchon

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Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

John Hope

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In all the shows I've done, I'm always the first to leave - it's in my make-up.

Matthew Morrison

DoneFirstAlwaysLeaveShows

When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been natural to me but always felt foreign in the other spaces I've been in.

Amanda Seales

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I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

Simon Rattle

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MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

Martin Winterkorn

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Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

Michael Leunig

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If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

Joseph Rykwert

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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Donna Leon

WorkNatureBestPeopleBetterKnow

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

David Sedaris

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The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

Christo

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