Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes
The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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You never know how much time you got.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I loved junior golf.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.
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Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
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I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.
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Life is funny, and that's why I celebrate it in my shows.
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Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.
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Modern science is no longer denying spirit. And that, that is epochal. As Hans Küng remarked, the standard answer to 'Do you believe in Spirit?' used to be, 'Of course not, I'm a scientist,' but it might very soon become, 'Of course I believe in Spirit. I'm a scientist.'
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The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke
