Colin Cotterill Quotes

But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.

Colin Cotterill

• Man
• Law
• Woman
• Competent
• Incompetent
• Irresponsibility

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• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

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• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

  

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• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

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• Dance should mean something to you.

  

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• Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

  

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• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

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• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

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• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

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• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

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• I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.

  

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• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

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• I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

  

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• But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Man
  • Law
  • Woman