Colin Meloy Quotes
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The world is too violent right now.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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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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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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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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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.
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I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
