Colin Cotterill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
-
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
-
The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
-
That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
-
I'm about my characters.
-
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
-
I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
-
The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
-
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
-
When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
-
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
-
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
-
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
-
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
-
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
-
I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.
-
I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
-
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
-
I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.
-
Even human relations become a matter of cost benefit calculation. Clearly this is the way the conquistadors viewed the worlds that they set out to conquer.It is the peculiar feature of modern capitalism to create social arrangements that essentially force us to think this way.
-
Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
-
Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
-
I'd love to have a rule where if you play on Monday night, you have to play at home the following Sunday. It's tough to operate on a short work week like that.
-
He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.
