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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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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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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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
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I'm not going to allow Mr. Mulroney to sell out our birthright, I'm not going to let Mr. Mulroney destroy a great 120 year old dream called Canada.
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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.
