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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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 are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
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We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.
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I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
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I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.
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Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that's what those early years were about - laying the foundation for a lifelong career with a great organization. More than 30 years later, I'm still with Deloitte, and I have no regrets.
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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.
