William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.
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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
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Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.
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I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.
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Lord Asriel is just a man, with human power, no more than that. But his ambition is limitless. He dares to do what men and women don't even dare to think.
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
