"I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic."
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"You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men."
"I look like Julian Clary on steroids."
"When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine."
"I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films."
"Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson."
"Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth."
"Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her."
"Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there."
"If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing."
"When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´."
"Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story."
"I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland."
"It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window."
"We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now."
"I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at."
"You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is."
"I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it."
"We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that."
"The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke."