La'el Collins Quotes
Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.
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I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.
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I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.
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Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.
