Colin Bateman Quotes
“Life is too short to spend an hour and a half on a mystery that will ultimately be solved by a cat.”
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.
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The world still hasn't seen the best of Sean Paul.
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I make the pussy purr with The stroke of my hand They know they gettin' it from me They know just where to go When they need their lovin man They know I do it for free They give me cat scratch fever
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The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
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First, the homeless population increase, which provides a source of food which supports population growth, second, many local governments, including Los Angeles, have banned the most effective practices for detecting and eradicating rats.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'
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“Life is too short to spend an hour and a half on a mystery that will ultimately be solved by a cat.”
