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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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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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
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I'm really thrilled to kind of be a role models for my daughters, and showing them the passion about what I do, and I get to go to work and I love to go to work. That's what I saw my mom doing my whole life.
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Music is my life and my passion.
