Elliott Colla Quotes
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas -
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 -
When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
Barbara Mandrell -
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 -
Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
Joe Strummer The Clash
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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 -
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
Kirk Douglas -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
Jeff Probst -
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 -
Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
Koo Stark -
There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
Mattie Stepanek -
I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
Ben Vereen
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Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
John Boyle O'Reilly -
We're looking for the early adopter who considers style to be an important part of the purchase decision. But they'll be getting a practical car with plenty of trunk space they can use for picking up building supplies at Home Depot.
Franz von Holzhausen -
It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye -
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
H. L. Mencken -
Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Scott Westerfeld -
It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.
Elliott Colla