Douglas Hodge Quotes
The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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The fight's the fight.
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I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
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I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.
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If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.
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The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.
