David Gemmell Quotes
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
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As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.
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If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
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Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
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It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
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... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.