David Gower Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.
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My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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