Colin Quinn Quotes
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
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Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
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So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
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When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
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I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
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The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.
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I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.
