Colin Cotterill Quotes
The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.
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We have much work ahead, to stand still.
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Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
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Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.
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My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
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Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.
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The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
