Eileen Collins Quotes
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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My job means I work late.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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Power always works from the corner office.
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Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
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What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
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We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.
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When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.
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I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.
