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 know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
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I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.
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As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
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I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
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Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
