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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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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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 are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
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When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.
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I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.
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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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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.
