Andrew Davies Quotes

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

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• I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Courage
  • Chance

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Lucky

• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Winning
  • Goal

• Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it - and they've stopped pretending they're not.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Now

• A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Future
  • Change

• When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Wings

• I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

  

  Larry David
  • Childhood
  • Tough
  • Miserable

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Together
  • Society

• When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Just

• You just have to play the character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • You
  • Play

• Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

  

  Janet Maslin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Captures

• I appreciate the fans who come out here, and they support us, but it's football. We're not saving lives. We're not police officers. We're not doctors. We're football players, first and foremost. If you want to stop watching the game because a guy feels strongly about a very serious topic that's going on in our society, then that's your choice.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Society

• I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people's right to know is cherished and guarded.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Society
  • Deep

• Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Wife
  • Being
  • Being Pregnant

• Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Women
  • Past

• Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

  

  Andrew Davies