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Brian Cox Quotes

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
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Birth: June 1, 1946

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Work Good Money Me Thought Doing

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

Good Atheist Old North

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

Pressure American Diet You Salt Now

My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.

Work People Start Help Trouble Say

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

Matt de la Pena

Style Poetry Loved Feelings Way

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Rifle Consider Assault

It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don't have.

Stars Opportunity History Curious Go

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

Life People Face Interesting Write

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I was sure that I didn't know everything. People who work with me will tell you I don't think I know everything. I watch people sink around me thinking that they knew everything.

Courtney A. Kemp

Work Talent Practice People Me You

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

Time World Real Real World Read

I have always been the tallest guy in my class, going back to first grade. Announcers have always had fun with it.

Fun Back Class First Always Going

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Myself Out Just Accident Really

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Wynton Marsalis

Music Start You Lose Flexibility

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