Nicholas Davies (Nick Davies) Quotes
It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
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There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.
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The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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90% of the world's data was created in the last two years.
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I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"
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You gotta be able to change worlds.
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With Maynard and Gilligan, I had the best of both worlds.
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On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.
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For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.
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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
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Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
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There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.
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There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
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Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.
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The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
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It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.
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At the time of Indian independence, I was a student in London and we the students, Indian students, celebrated the moment with great joy. I was exhilarated, no doubt, but the shadow of two events fell upon the jollifications. First, a sense of disappointment that the imperialist objective of dividing India has been achieved. And second, the communal carnage which took place in India cast another shadow on it.
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The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.
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Never underestimate your fans; they'll tell you exactly what they like.
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It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
