Jack Davenport Quotes

My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

Jack Davenport

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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

Zack Snyder
- Work
- Real
- Art
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Tab Hunter
- People
- Earth
- Me
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

Zadie Smith
- People
- Up
- Time
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

Jack White The White Stripes
- People
- Different
- Family
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

Fabiola Gianotti
- Home
- Energy
- Rest
The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

Bam Margera
- Up
- Movie
- Know