Colin Callender Quotes
I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
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The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
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He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.
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'Journey' is a way for us to explore the crossing, the intersection of our lives between each other.
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.
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I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
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I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
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I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.
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I have to be careful not to get a paunch - I'm so skinny that if I put any weight anywhere, it'd be there, and I don't like a bulge. I wouldn't mind if it went on my bosom, but it doesn't.
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Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
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You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.
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I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
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Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.
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It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
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Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and never let it cause you to judge them. Depression is not a person. Like any other illness, it is something that happens to a person. It shouldn't define them.
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I try not to plan that too much.
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I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.
