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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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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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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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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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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The maternal instinct is in me.
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You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
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It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.
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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.
