Cliff Robertson Quotes
I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
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Most style is not honest enough.
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Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.
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I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
