Colin Meloy Quotes
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies.
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'McKay tells me that you went home sick,' she said. 'Personally, I hope you don’t survive.'
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I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.
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I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'
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It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
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I've been vacationing in western North Carolina and northern Georgia since I was a kid. I arrive, marvel at the mountains, and put on an unconvincing Southern drawl.
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
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I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.
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We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.
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I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.
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Single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light;
