Colin Quinn Quotes
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, topping off the gas tank may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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My name has zero value.
