Colin Cunningham Quotes
Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.
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I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
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Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
