Dan Colen Quotes
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
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One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
