Edwyn Collins Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.
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I have no guitar technique.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
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I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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Music is my life and my passion.
