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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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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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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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
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When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.
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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.
