Elliott Colla Quotes

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.

Elliott Colla

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• I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Look
  • Got

• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

  

  Nas
  • Artist
  • Rapper
  • Anybody

• I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Music
  • Years
  • Been

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fishing

• Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Fear

• I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Up
  • Why

• We have a lot of people with a Western education who work in Russia and understand the international rules of business and corporate governance.

  

  Pyotr Aven
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Done
  • Couple

• The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

  

  Jeff Probst

• I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • War
  • Help
  • Marine

• To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Experience

• Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

  

  Emma Stone
  • People
  • Balance

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

  

  Kathy Ireland
  • Sports

• I like the fact that the audience does notice the hard work that I put in to maintain my physique, and there is nothing better than having your hard work appreciated!

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Work

• It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Humanity
  • Imagine
  • Don't Know