Clive Owen Quotes
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.
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I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
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My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
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I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
