Alex Colville Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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Yes! The Tommo is back!
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
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The universality of art, I suppose, always springs from the particular.
