Colin Wilson Quotes
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
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In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.
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The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
