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If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.


Colin Wilson

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COLIN TREVORROW I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or fiv...
COLIN FARRELL The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't...
COLIN QUINN I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really intere...
COLIN MORGAN Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great opt...
COLIN FIRTH I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton.
COLIN DONNELL Victor Cruz just got his deal with Givenchy - amazing. I was so excited for him. That was amazing. S...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriag...
COLIN POWELL It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political s...
COLIN POWELL I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a ...
COLIN FIRTH In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and e...
COLIN ANGLE I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
COLIN FARRELL Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad ...
COLIN POWELL There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
COLIN TREVORROW We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you...
COLIN TREVORROW We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.
COLIN MOCHRIE One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's ...
COLIN FIRTH As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always...
COLIN MOCHRIE I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
COLIN BAKER We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a re...
COLIN POWELL There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
COLIN TREVORROW We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masse...
COLIN ANGLE The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.
COLIN ANGLE It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.
COLIN ANGLE There is strong synergy with consumer electronics. The core of a robot could ultimately be a cell ph...
COLIN ANGLE This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.
COLIN ANGLE