Alan Davies Quotes
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
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Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.
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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
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I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
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I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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I hope more people decide to become organ donors.
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But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.
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If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
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Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.
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It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.
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There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
