Douglas Horton Quotes
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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I'm a dork!
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
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That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
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Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.
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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
