Colin Firth Quotes

A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting 'Mamma Mia!' at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom's 'Genova'. That was a very, very bizarre summer.

Colin Firth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

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I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Anatoly Karpov

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

YourselfYouHumanRightHuman Being

I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to find out what our generation is about. I bought a video camera, started shooting, learned as I went, and ended up with 'Our Time,' a feature-length documentary about what it's like to be young in America. I was hooked.

Matthew Heineman

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My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Srikumar Rao

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My favorite thing to do is to get something good out of something bad.

Sigrid

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If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

Tracy Chapman

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I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

Ron Rash

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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Lucian Freud

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But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

Lita Ford

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As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

Diplo

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The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.

Clay Shirky

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We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected.

Alicia Garza

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