Jamie Dornan Quotes
People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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My health is fine.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
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Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more real than our actual experience.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.
