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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

Between, Difference, Takes

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Henry Rollins

Music, Strange, Sense

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.
Quentin Tarantino

Music, Good, Writing

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
Tom Felton

Person, Suppose

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughan

Love, Poor, Tax

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin

Passion, Memories, Chaos

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim

Mother, Woman, Working

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.
Gary Oldman

Guitar, Imagine, Plastic

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
Robert Mapplethorpe

True, Motivation, Knows

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
Rowan Atkinson

Good, Cars, Causes

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
Lev Grossman

Love, Work, Mind

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.
Lev Grossman

Love, Book, Same

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins

Thinking, Bullet, Belt

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
Mike Shinoda

Call, Guess, Sneakers

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.
Tom Wolfe

Great, Bad, Year

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
James Caan

Important, Humble, Seriously

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Brett Ratner

Book, Young, Since

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.
Michael Gambon

Difficult, Guns, Cars

I'm not a collector.
Hayao Miyazaki

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
Richard MacDonald

Art, Last, Interested

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
Joshua Homme

Point, Guess, Vinyl

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
Rachael Taylor

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.
Kit Williams

Home, Last, Knowing

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
Jason Mewes

Money, Down, Big

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.
Joe Shuster

Same, Both, Found

I'm a huge poster collector.
Illeana Douglas

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
Terry Southern

Work, After, Started

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
Michael Shanks

Brother, Books, Comic

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler

Desire, However, Guitars

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
Craig McCracken

Cool, Characters, Toys

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