Zitat des Tages über Kollektor / Collector:
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
I guess I always have been a collector.
eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.
If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
I am a big book collector. I love books.
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.
The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
I was an avid Pokemon card collector.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
Don't react with fear and panic in the face of debt collector threats. Talk to them and explain your situation. See if you can work out a compromise.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
I was working out at a gym in Montreal when I was doing 'The Bone Collector.' I walked in and said 'Where do I sign in?' Somebody behind me, without even seeing my face, said 'Excuse me, are you on 'Star Trek'?' They recognized me from my voice.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
