Colin Hay Quotes
I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
