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 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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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.
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In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
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We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
