David Walliams Quotes
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.
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[My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
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I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.
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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
