Garth Davis Quotes
I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.
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When the kids are down, I have a drink and watch 'The Kelly File.'
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Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who have giant audiences can't sell books because those audiences don't feel like they need to give them their money.
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Remarks by the President on the Administration's Approach to Counterterrorism (6 December 2016)
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
