Colin Meloy Quotes
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The world is too violent right now.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
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I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
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If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
