Brian Clough Quotes
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
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At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
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On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
