Clive Owen Quotes
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
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The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
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I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
