Donald Davis Quotes
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
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I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
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He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. “I told you to stop flinching.” And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but there were definitely teeth involved.
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
