Damian Lewis Quotes
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I find the experience of keeping a journal much more creative on paper than on a computer. When I write, I'm physically immersed in the world and slow down, whereas on screen, I use my senses in a less engaged way - and I skim more.
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And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
