Damian Lewis Quotes
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
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God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.
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Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
