Colin Wilson Quotes
He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
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For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system.
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Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.
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It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.
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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
