Marvin Davis Quotes
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
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Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
