Andrew Davies Quotes

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• 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
  • People
  • Movie
  • Like

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Deliberately

• 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
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• 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
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Taken

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• 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
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • Kid

• People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Worst
  • Scared

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  

  Ovid
  • Water
  • Body
  • How

• 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
  • People
  • Game
  • Play

• 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
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• 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
  • People
  • Respect
  • Inspired

• Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Film
  • Project
  • Involved

• 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
  • Women
  • Future

• 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
  • People
  • Today
  • Dying

• The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Science

• 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
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Force
  • Passionate
  • Crush

• What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Black
  • Earth
  • Water

• Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.

  

  Alfonso X of Castile
  • Friends
  • Books
  • Wines

• The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Miracle

• I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

  

  Andrew Davies