Dave Morris Quotes
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.
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The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.
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We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
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To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
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Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
