Douglas Booth Quotes
For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
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For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.
