David Gemmell Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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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 make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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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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I owe everything to France.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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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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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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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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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I'm usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter.
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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
