Colin Hay Quotes
I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
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I don't trade my vote for money.
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I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s.
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I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
