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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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I'm not a sun person.
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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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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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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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As you grow older, you change.
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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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.
