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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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'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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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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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.
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People have times when they want to go through different looks.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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I'm sentimental to a fault.
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Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
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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.
