Colm Feore Quotes
I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.
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What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.
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I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
