Clifton Collins, Jr. Quotes
Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
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I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
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Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
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Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
