Colin Callender Quotes
You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
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When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.
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You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.
