Edwyn Collins Quotes
I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
Quotes to Explore
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
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January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.
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Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
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You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
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Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.
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I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
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It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
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I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
