Columbus Short Quotes
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.
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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
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I will be an artist or nothing!
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I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.
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When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
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I love working to push the industry forward.
