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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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
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When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases - people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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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.
