Jamie Dornan Quotes
To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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It's not impossible but it's difficult, for a non-white person to be British.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?
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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
