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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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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.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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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.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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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.
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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.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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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.
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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.
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Life is God's art.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.
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People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
