Colin Mochrie Quotes
My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
Quotes to Explore
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
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People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.
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Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
