Colleen Atwood Quotes
I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
 
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	My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.   
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	I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.   
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	We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.   
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	Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.   
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	There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.   
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	I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.   
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	I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.   
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	I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.   
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	The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.   
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	The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.   
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	I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.   
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	My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.   
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	I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.   
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	When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.   
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	Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.   
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	If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.   
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	Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country. Olusegun Obasanjo
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	Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.   
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	Beggars should be no choosers.   
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	You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.   
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	People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.   
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	I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.   
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	Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.   
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	I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					