Douglas Booth Quotes
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.
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My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time.
