Colin Gunton Quotes
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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Many support what I am doing.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.
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The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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Everything important seems already to have happened.
