Colin Quinn Quotes
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.
