Jack Davenport Quotes
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.
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When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'
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We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.
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I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
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Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
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Then you notice likkle carpet burnMy stomach drop and my guts churnYou shrug and it's the worstWho truly stuck the knife in first?I cheated myself like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no goodI cheated myself, like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
