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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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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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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There are always ridiculous things on television or on the Internet that make people go, 'Did you see that?' That could be anything from a clip from the 'Real Housewives' to someone jumping off their roof and missing the pool to a zillion other things.
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I think 'The Americans' is exceptional on every level.
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The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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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.
