Colin Hay Quotes

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

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• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• 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.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• 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.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Will
  • Him

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Human Heart

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• 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.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Movies
  • Sing
  • Possibly

• 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.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Action
  • Me
  • Sin

• After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Me
  • Process

• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Hate
  • Find
  • Conservative

• 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.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Forever
  • Deep
  • German

• Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • King
  • Blue

• I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Player
  • Games

• I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.

  

  Chuck Darby
  • Player
  • Brotherhood
  • Alexander

• The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Up
  • Black
  • Shoes

• I'm very heavily involved in the editorial post-production process, and the camera - it's just such a big part of my storytelling language. I like creating the tension; I like creating the emotion through the movement of my camera, or the lack of movement through my camera, depending on what fits the scene best.

  

  James Wan

• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Feelings

• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

  

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