Colin Salmon Quotes
I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
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It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.
