Jamie Dornan Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.
