David Gemmell Quotes
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.
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We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.
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Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
