Douglas Booth Quotes
The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
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What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
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I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
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Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
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What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.
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I consider that the building materials are exactly the same as what anybody else makes the thing out of. It's just the way they look at those materials is perhaps a narrower perspective. Time and those waves are at the disposal of anyone who wants to use them.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
