David Gemmell Quotes
Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others — and I count myself among them — are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Women are sacred.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.
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Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better.
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Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.
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Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others — and I count myself among them — are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.