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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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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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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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
