Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'
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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.
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It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
