Eoin Colfer Quotes
The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.
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I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.
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If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
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The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
