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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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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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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When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.
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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 am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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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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In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.
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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
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St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
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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.
