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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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'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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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
