Douglas Hodge Quotes
To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.
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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
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I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.
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Irrationality is the opposite of rationality: it means unreasonable, unfounded, ill-conceived. Irrationality is reason, practiced badly. A trance brought about by ecstatic dancing or drumming is certainly not rational, but it isn't irrational either. It's non-rational—it belongs to another category of experience entirely. Indeed, much of its value lies quite precisely in the fact that it takes us on a holiday away from reason.
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I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
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To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.
