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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• 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.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Different
  • Song
  • Myself

• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • First
  • Concert

• 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.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Girl
  • Sweet
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• 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.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Perspective

• 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.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Music
  • Church
  • Inspiration

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Focus
  • Woman

• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Kill
  • Scares
  • Amazon

• I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • First
  • Wine
  • Beer

• 'Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.'

  

  Banksy

• 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.

  

  Rajneesh

• You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Real

• Thus far, at least, the growth effects of energy price increases appear relatively modest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Energy
  • Growth
  • Effects

• I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Party
  • Clubs
  • Screening

• I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

  

  James Patterson
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Children
  • Profession
  • Murder

• All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • America
  • Words

• The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

  

  Colin Callender