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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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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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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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren't patting me on the back anymore, sayin', 'Good job on the sobriety! Go get 'em!'
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If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.
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I'm a sucker for a sad song.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
