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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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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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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It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I like to think that images of people doing amazing things may open people's eyes to the human potential, to the idea that people can do the extraordinary when they set their minds to it.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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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.
