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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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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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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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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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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Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.
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Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.
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When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
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I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
