Calvin Harris (Adam Richard Wiles) Quotes
Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't like controversy.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor.
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I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
