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Karl Pilkington Quotes

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Karl Pilkington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: September 23, 1972

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Me You Television Done Everything

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Moment Training Preparation Game End

How do we make a record that's true to the vibe of the band but still maintain the pace of moving forward and doing something fresh?

Moving Forward Moving Forward Doing

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

John Lee Hancock

Good Great Job Story Deep You

The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

Work Technology Honesty People You

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

Hate People You Sometimes Movies

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Life Humor Amazing Details Find Us

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

Theatre Night Comedy Doing Trying

If you have a drug that is $100 for one course of therapy, and you know that you can charge $100,000, what should shareholders think when you say, 'I'd rather not take the heat'?

Think You Know Say Therapy Heat

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

School People Me Down Would Accent

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

Failure Story You Look Teach Way

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

Law Society Rule Of Law Important

I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.

Grow Better Want Always Improve

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