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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No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
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Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like identifying with TV characters - connecting to them emotionally more than you connect to literal, physical people in your life - causes problems. They just don't have the same existence or boundaries as you do. They resemble us, but they are not us.
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You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.
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It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.
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The costumes had to serve the choreography.
