David Gemmell Quotes
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
Quotes to Explore
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'
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Who's gonna dare to be great?
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
