Damian Lewis Quotes
There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
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The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.
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Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
