Arthur Powell Davies (A. Powell Davies) Quotes
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.
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I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.
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All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
