Colin Firth Quotes

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Colin Firth

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• Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Business
  • Society

• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Song
  • Me

• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Path
  • Talent
  • Open

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Love
  • Being
  • Courtroom

• I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • World
  • Smart
  • Intelligent

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Take
  • Chill
  • Seriously

• You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Period

• We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • She
  • Job

• I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Want
  • Travel
  • I Can

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • You
  • Evil

• Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Death
  • Spiritual
  • Prayer

• I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Security

• I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Think
  • Play
  • Should

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Struggle
  • Genius

• I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Struggle