Clifton Collins, Jr. Quotes
I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
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Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
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My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
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I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.
