Donald Davis Quotes
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
Quotes to Explore
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
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I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
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As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
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I love having my daughter in the kitchen with me as I prepare meals. We talk about anything and everything!
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The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
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I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
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I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.
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Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
