Colin Farrell Quotes
But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
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When I was eighteen and I won the European Championship - that's when I realized I had an opportunity to play in the NBA one day.
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I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.
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But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
