David Gemmell Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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I try to do my best.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
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It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
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Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
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No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.
