Colin Quinn Quotes
I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.
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Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.
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There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
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I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
