Colin Wilson Quotes
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
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'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
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Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
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I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
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Desde que yo solo sé qué me sucede, no me sucede nada.
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The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
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My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that.
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Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
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Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.
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Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.