Colin Hay Quotes
It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
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I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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I don't consider myself any denomination.
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I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
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It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
