Colin Cotterill Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
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It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
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Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.
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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
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Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun
