Colin Hay Quotes
The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
Quotes to Explore
-
I turned down a lot of films.
-
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
-
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
-
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
-
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
-
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
-
In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
-
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
-
The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
-
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
-
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
-
One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
-
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
-
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
-
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
-
I'm a real romantic.
-
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
-
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
-
The tide of war dose not recede just be cause we wish it to.
-
Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
-
People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.
-
The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
