Andrew Davies Quotes
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Andrew Davies
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
Daisy Ridley
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
Babe Paley
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
Barbara Kruger
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
Zadie Smith
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
Barry Eisler
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People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.
Haley Joel Osment
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
Patrick Ewing
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
Halsey
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
Irwin Winkler
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In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.
Warren Farrell
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By 2050 there will be almost 2.5 times as many people here as in 1960: 420 million. The share of the population of European descent will be a minority as it is today in California, Texas and New Mexico. And that minority will be aging, shrinking and dying. There will be as many Hispanics here, 102 million, as there are Mexicans today in Mexico...
Pat Buchanan
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
Laurel Clark
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The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.
Brittany Snow
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If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.
Gabe Polsky
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And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.
Dan Pallotta
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Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.
Lisa Leslie
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We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
Barack Obama
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
Bono
U2
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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Andrew Davies
