David Gemmell Quotes
The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.David Gemmell
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. Joshua -
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
Weegee -
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
Dana Carvey -
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers -
I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
Flume
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
Tamsin Egerton -
During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
Irene Rosenfeld -
I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
Nadia Comaneci -
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
Larry David -
I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
Ian Rush -
I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
Gary Sherman -
Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
Haley Reinhart -
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus -
How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
Olga Korbut -
Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
Karen Mills
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One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really happening here. They think Paris is a socialist museum where people are exceptionally good at eating small bits of chocolate and tying scarves.
Pamela Druckerman -
The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.
Elizabeth Wein -
Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.
Lisa Snowdon -
What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Act by inspiration, motivated by love.
Russell M. Nelson -
The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
David Gemmell