Colin Baker Quotes
It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.
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I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
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It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
