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 don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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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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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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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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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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Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.
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I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Music is my life and my passion.
