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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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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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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You're going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that's around you. That's what I found from being not only a player but also a coach.
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web."
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
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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.
