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.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
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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.
