Colin Greenwood Quotes

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

Colin Greenwood

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The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

Johnny Bench

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We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

John Schlesinger

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The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

Steve Wozniak

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I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

Tommy Mottola

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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

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The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

Romesh Gunesekera

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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Michael Pollan

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Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Miriam Toews

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To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Jasper Johns

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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

Joseph Hume

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Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

Dikembe Mutombo

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My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.

Chris Riddell

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