Norman Davies Quotes
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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I go to movies. I blend in.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies - moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don't get enough airtime - I think they're sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I'll do is go to the park.
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
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People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
