Elliott Colla Quotes
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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.
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When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
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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.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
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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.
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Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
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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.
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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.
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Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
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There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
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I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
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Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
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I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.
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It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.
