Dominic Monaghan Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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The whole intention was to act. There were rough times, but I had landed up with my driver's license and thought to myself that if I didn't make it as an actor, I would ply taxis.
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The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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My parents are pretty cool people.
