Dominic West Quotes
If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Nature hates calculators.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.
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A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'
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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
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If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
