Dominic West Quotes
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I'm still swimming.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
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I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.
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I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
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My heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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I'm a rather crude cook.
