Alan Davies Quotes
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.
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I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
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“The world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... You must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.”
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From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.
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I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
