Jack Davenport Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
