Colleen Atwood Quotes
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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The world needs some help.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
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My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.
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Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
