Damian Lewis Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.
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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
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The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.
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Wiederhorn, Jon (February 8, 1996). Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back. Rolling Stone.
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My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
