Colm Wilkinson Quotes
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
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Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac.
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Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
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Around Clifden, I like the place, and the people are great.
