Gavyn Davies Quotes
Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
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The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
