David Gemmell Quotes
'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'
Quotes to Explore
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
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Just wanna have plaques on plaques. That's what we goin' for.
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Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep
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Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
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To me, absurdity is the only reality.
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'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'
