Colin McRae (Colin Steele McRae) Quotes
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
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I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
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They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
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For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.
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I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
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There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
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My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.
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Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
