David Gemmell Quotes
Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.
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I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
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Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are.
