Alex Colville Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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I love working with women.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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That which is excellent endures.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
