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.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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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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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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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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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
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Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.
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“The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”
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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.
