Colin Meloy Quotes
I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
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Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'
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Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
