David Gemmell Quotes
'I thought you were the best,' she chided. 'Fathers always seem that way,' he said dryly. 'But no. With bow or knife I am superb. But with the sword? only excellent.' 'And so modest. Is there anything at which you do not excel?'
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
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'I thought you were the best,' she chided. 'Fathers always seem that way,' he said dryly. 'But no. With bow or knife I am superb. But with the sword? only excellent.' 'And so modest. Is there anything at which you do not excel?'
