Joe Davis Quotes
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
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It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.
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What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, he who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.
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I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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I wear the phone out, calling the Kansas Payment Center.
