David Anthony Durham Quotes
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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Persuasion's flowing well.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
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I was a class clown, but I'm not a bully.
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I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
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Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.
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California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
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It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
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As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.
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Everything is so much more stacked than it was even five or 10 years ago. There are so many more good players, so many solid players. The level doesn't really drop from around 100-500. It's really tough to make it, but I just have to work as hard as possible.
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
