Colin Hay Quotes
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I am a huge obsessor with photography.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.
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I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
