Colin Meloy Quotes
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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I don't take vacations.
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I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.
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I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.
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I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
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I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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You live and you learn. When we were younger we wanted to party nonstop and have a good time. That’s all good, but things are different now. We still have our little bit of fun in both worlds. It’s nice to be able to travel the world with the kids.
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It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
