Eileen Collins Quotes
My dream, now, is that people will discover and invent new ways to fly higher, faster and farther and that someday humans will travel beyond our solar system.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I like retirement.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
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I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
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My dream, now, is that people will discover and invent new ways to fly higher, faster and farther and that someday humans will travel beyond our solar system.
