Colin Cotterill Quotes

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

Colin Cotterill

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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Prize

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Try

• Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Future
  • Financial
  • Plan

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Ghetto

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Word

• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Known
  • Grave
  • Chief

• You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Work
  • Road
  • Name

• When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • You
  • Movies

• Experience does for the soul, what education does for the mind.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Soul

• The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Long
  • History
  • Nature

• The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Change
  • Church
  • Rock

• Hip-hop music in general kind of revolves around singles, and I appreciate that mindset, but at the same time, I wanted to go beyond that. It's not like I was intending to make a classic record - I mean, I'm always trying to make timeless music, but I really just tried to reference the music that on a road trip you can put in and not have to skip a track.

  

  Alexander Spit
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singles

• Honesty can be a dirty gift.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Honesty
  • Gift