Mo Collins (Maureen Ann Collins) Quotes

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

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• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Age
  • Horse
  • Listen

• All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Desire
  • Decision
  • Discipline

• Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Style

• When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Good
  • Great
  • Play

• Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Way

• The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Law
  • Ambition
  • Agency

• I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

  

  William Shatner
  • Life
  • Minutes
  • Gossip

• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise...

  

  John Milton
  • Spirit
  • Fame
  • Raise

• We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • Music
  • Listen

• You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.

  

  Ian McDonald Foreigner
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Gift

• The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game."

  

  Sean Connery
  • Charity
  • St. Andrews
  • Jack Nicklaus

• Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Friends
  • Caring
  • Nerd

• If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Music
  • Party
  • Problem

• You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

  

  Ernst Zundel
  • People
  • Fire
  • Prejudice

• Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Water

• In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Moved
  • My Mother

• I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

  

  Mo Collins
  • Moved
  • Minnesota