Colin Cotterill Quotes
“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.
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Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
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Whence come night and flood? How they disappear? Whither flies night from day; And how is it not seen?
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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
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One of my problems with religion is that it's limiting in so many ways. I remember the first time I took a humanities class, I thought, I can't believe this. This is fantastic. This is what I want my life to be. When I was a young person, I did a lot of dabbling in Eastern religions, and it was very satisfying in some ways, but there's that limitation always, which I find myself bridling against.
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“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
