David Walliams Quotes
Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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You have to want it overwhelmingly. You have to be an egomaniac. You have to have a little bit of talent. You have to have a massive amount of luck.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.
