Colin Cotterill Quotes

Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.

Colin Cotterill

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• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Truth
  • Idea
  • Table

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Play
  • Like
  • Paradox

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Performance

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Forever

• Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Me
  • Prayer

• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Control
  • Discipline
  • Teach

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Together
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Food
  • Poetry
  • Progress

• I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May
  • Said
  • Labor

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Wood

• Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Encounters