Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
