Colin Hanks Quotes
I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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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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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.
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It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film school and just watch other filmmakers work and try to be a part of somebody else's vision. So I feel like you do use two very different parts of your brain, and it's great to be able to jump back and forth.
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I want to create the content I didn't have while growing up.
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I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
