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'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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All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.
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The words walked right out of my mouth.
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I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
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Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.
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Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
