Clive Owen Quotes
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
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I do support people eating more vegetables. It's a good thing to do.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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And while we recognize that our influence will at times be limited, although we will be wary of efforts to impose democracy through military force, and although we will at times be accused of hypocrisy and inconsistency, we will be engaged in the region for the long haul. For the hard work of forging freedom and democracy is the task of a generation.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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I'll wake up and I'll train the next day. It's been like that since I started. I think I train harder, harder than the hardest workers in the off-season.
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'Was the cow crossed?''No, your worship, it was an open cow.'
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The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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The worst form anger can take is that of a parent who feels her or his chance for 'winning my child' is enhanced by 'ruining my ex.' The law has given the most vindictive parent an invitation to play the 'abuse' card. This is the 'Great Temptation.'
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To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
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I always want my options to be open.
