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'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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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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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
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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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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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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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Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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A man could fight bullets and bayonets, even rockets if he understood the weapon, but no man understood the invisible enemies. Sharpe wished he knew how to propitiate Fate, the soldiers' Goddess, but She was a capricious deity, without loyalty.
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To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
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Where lies the land to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know.And where the land she travels from? Away,Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
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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.
