Paul Giamatti Quotes

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

Paul Giamatti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1967

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I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.

Jerry Falwell

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

John Lloyd

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I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

Andy Kindler

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That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

Johnny Ball

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The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Stevie Nicks

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I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.

Tomi Adeyemi

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David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.

Tony Bellew

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How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters.

Mary Beard

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Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.

Louise Wilson

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The bourgeois are other people.

Jules Renard

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