Colin McRae (Colin Steele McRae) Quotes
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.
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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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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
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There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.
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And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.
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Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.
