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 adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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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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A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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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.
