Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes
The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
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The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.
