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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I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think the biggest influence on me as a storyteller and as a filmmaker is actually Steven Spielberg. I love that even though Steven isn't known for being a horror director, he started out his career making scary movies.
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...but I was bored, I could scarcely understand them. I started to borrow novels from the circulating library, and read one after the other. But in the long run they didn't help. They presented intense lives, profound conversations, a phantom reality more appealing than my real life. So, in order to feel as if I were not real, I sometimes went...
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There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words.
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I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
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The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
