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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When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.
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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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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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.
