Colin Quinn Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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'TV Guide' is smart to aim toward women. More women will go there to find out what's on - just like when guys won't ask for directions, a woman will break out the map.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
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The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.
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I always wanted to write as much as perform.
