Colin Mochrie Quotes
Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
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I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
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I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.
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Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.
