Colin Firth Quotes
They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
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Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.
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I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.
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I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce
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But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.
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We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
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My quest to meet Osama bin Laden began in North London early in 1997. In the Dollis Hill section, I contacted Khaled al-Fauwaz, the spokesman for a Saudi opposition group, the Advice and Reformation Committee, which bin Laden had founded.
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The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.
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They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.
