William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
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Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
