Colin Bateman Quotes
“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.”
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.
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My work is anti-natureThe four-story mountainYou will not think form, space, line, contourJust a suggestion of nature gives weightlight and heavylight like a featheryou get light enough and you levitate
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If anyone is as angry as I am, it's the good people of Detroit.
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
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I never watch my own films.
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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
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I have a very strong will.
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Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.
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The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
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I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
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“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.”
