Anthony Collins Quotes
Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.
