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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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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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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The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
Jennifer Nettles
Sugarland
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Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Leo Durocher
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When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.
Ari Graynor
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
Phil McGraw
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I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.
Les Claypool
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I've learned more from makeup artists in my nine years of modeling than from my mother. She always told me not to wear any makeup. I try to keep my skin and hair clean and give them a rest when I'm not working.
Bianca Balti
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The most profound reason... why the metropolis conduces to the urge for the most individual personal existence... appears to me to be the following: the development of modern culture is characterized by the preponderance of what one may call the 'objective spirit' over the 'subjective spirit.'
Georg Simmel
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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Andrew Davies
