Damian Lewis Quotes
'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
