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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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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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
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We're not co-sleeping. I'm all for what people want to do in their home, but I need my bed. I'm a terrible sleeper... I toss and turn and flip, and it would just be a disaster if there were a baby there. And I think it's important for a kid to have their own space.
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Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.
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Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.
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I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.
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My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
