David Walliams Quotes
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
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We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.
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I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.
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I love wearing drag.
