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I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Billy' trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?


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COLIN KAEPERNICK There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of he...
COLIN TREVORROW Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research pri...
COLIN ANGLE I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
COLIN POWELL We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to...
COLIN TREVORROW To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a h...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
COLIN POWELL The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standin...
COLIN WILSON The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
COLIN POWELL Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attract...
COLIN FARRELL Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He...
COLIN MOCHRIE My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
COLIN FIRTH There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
COLIN FARRELL I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac...
COLIN FIRTH Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...
COLIN POWELL You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nati...
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