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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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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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
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Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Music is my life and my passion.
