Clive Owen Quotes
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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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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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In hockey, it was a freak show. I'm the son of actors and from California, and in Canada, hockey is a religion, so me coming in, it was like, 'Who the hell is this guy?' I just had to put my head down and work really hard, and it was difficult, but it made me who I am and gave me a backbone.
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Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
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I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
