Colin Cotterill Quotes
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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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.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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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.
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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.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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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.
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When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
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The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.
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Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
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Farden, I swear to the gods, I will carry you through this door myself if you don’t hurry up!
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
