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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Be who you are and be that well.
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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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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
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I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
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There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.
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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.
