Colin Callender Quotes
The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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'Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.'
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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Praise the Lord for all good things. We blew their balls into shards of dust,Into shards of fucking dust. We did it. Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
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'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.
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A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
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The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.
