Damian Lewis Quotes
Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I love bayou life.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
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I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
