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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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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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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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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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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It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.
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People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
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All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.
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... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.
