Edwyn Collins Quotes
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs – a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy – you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.
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Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.
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I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
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I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.
