James Cosmo Quotes
I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.
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I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
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Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
