Bobby Davro Quotes
People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
Quotes to Explore
-
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
-
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
-
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
-
Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
-
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
-
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
-
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
-
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
-
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
-
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
-
Ultimately love is everything.
-
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
-
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
-
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
-
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
-
I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
-
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
-
I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.
-
People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
