Colin Cotterill Quotes
...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Writers are so important.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
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Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
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I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.
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People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
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...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.
