Douglas Booth Quotes
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
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'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.
