A. Lee Martinez Quotes
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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You write about what you know.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.
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Politics swings like a pendulum.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
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Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.
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There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.
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"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
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All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.
