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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Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.
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When people not accustomed to Washington came to the office, or when I met them on some special occasion, they often remarked that it seemed to be my busy day, to which my stock reply came to be that all days were busy and there was little difference among them.
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If it's comfy, it probably doesn't look good.
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What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.
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I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!
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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.
