Quotes by Colin Salmon - Page 1

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.
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Jazz
Trumpet
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We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.
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Speak
Street
Strangers
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Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.
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Hiv
Scenario
Wrestle
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Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!
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Consistent
Garage
Now And Then
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I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!
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Funny Myself Me
Flourish
Pink
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I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.
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Handle
Throat
Pushed
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I love 'Babette's Feast' because of the message in it - an artist will never be poor, and you can melt the coldest heart with love and passion.
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Feast
Melt
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The Loden in Vancouver, where I stayed when I was filming 'The Arrow,' is a family-run hotel with a fantastic restaurant, great facilities, and brilliant people.
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Brilliant
Fantastic
Hotel
Vancouver
Arrow
Filming
Facilities
Stayed
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I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don't really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him.
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Debate
Bond
Believe I Believe Man
James
James Bond
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'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.
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Christmas
Audience
Bond
Brought
Films
Global
Wait
Meet
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We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.
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Governors
Nursery
Provision
Skills
Worried
Chair
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'The Bank Job' was great fun to work on. Roger Donaldson is a top director, and working on HD was a new experience. It picks up every detail, which is a blessing and a curse if you think about it.
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Blessing
Curse
Picks
Roger
Work Experience Great
Bank
Detail
Great Fun
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I liked 'Z Cars' - just hearing the music got me going! 'Coronation Street' was massive in our house. My mum used to say Ena Sharples reminded her of Gran, which she wouldn't have been happy to hear!
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Coronation
Hearing
Massive
Mum
Music Me Street
Reminded
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I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.
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Army
Council
Salvation
Bought
Estate
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I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
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Jam
Last Year
Best Time
Filming
Trumpet
Island
Pocket
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I take a four-pin extension lead, so I can jack one plug in the wall, and I've got four plugs there for me. With all our phones and different gadgets, I think everyone should carry one. It's become a crucial part of my travel kit.
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Crucial
Gadgets
Phones
Extension
Jack
Plug
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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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Belfast
Cathy
Billy
Otherwise
Plays
Trilogy
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I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.
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Breathe
Thrilling
Workplace
Flies
Mortal
Terrifying
Reminds
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It's fantastic that 'Strictly' is beating 'The X Factor' for many reasons - but one of the main reasons is I think it's a fantastic piece of variety television. It is live, varied TV whereby we are really hanging ourselves out by the seam of our pants.
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Pants
Beating
Factor
Hanging
Strictly
Varied
Whereby
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In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.
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Britain
Hotel
Spectacular
Love Time Live
James
Tower
Tucked
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