Damian Lewis Quotes
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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You have to be yourself.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
