Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes
This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.
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It will be a new page in the industry of filmmaking and art in general. I think all revolutions, even if they don't achieve all of their goals, achieve freedom of expression. We're like a little chick. We just broke the egg. We didn't come out yet but it's a matter of time.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
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This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.
