Damian Lewis Quotes
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
