Colleen Atwood Quotes
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably true in general. You want to keep your skin thin.
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I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
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It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.
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It is important to pray for peace. . . But you must also take actions to make that happen. Every single day.
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I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.
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The costumes had to serve the choreography.
