Colin Hay Quotes
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, 'The die is cast,' he took the river.
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At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.
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I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.
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Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
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That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
