Norman Davies Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
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I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.
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'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
