Colin Callender Quotes

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

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• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Death
  • Peace

• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Running

• I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Literature

• But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

  

  Nathan Lane

• At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Age

• Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Power

• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

  

  Don McLean
  • American
  • Song

• I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.

  

  Anna Maxwell Martin
  • Time
  • Night
  • Door

• Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Evil
  • Democracy
  • Air

• I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't want to follow the herd.

  

  Alain Robert

• I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

  

  Pierre Bayle

• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Good
  • Action

• Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

  

  Catullus
  • Water
  • Wine
  • Destruction

• Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Good
  • Writing

• I love writing Scottish dialogue.

  

  John Niven
  • Writing

• Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Long
  • Writing

• It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Writing
  • Actors
  • Playwright