Colin Trevorrow Quotes
If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
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I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
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It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
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I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
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If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.
