David Gemmell Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
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To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
