Colm Wilkinson Quotes
You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Custom is second nature.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory
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Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
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There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.
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My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
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You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.
