Colin Meloy Quotes
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.
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It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
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The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
