Andrew Davies Quotes

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Lost
  • London

• My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Fighter
  • Competitor

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Creativity

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • She
  • America

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Myself

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • People
  • God
  • Fighting

• I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Best
  • Advice
  • Follow

• 'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.

  

  Dana Walden

• When Dad came home from work, he'd turn our family dinners into tutorials on business, money, sales, and profit margins. He shared fascinating stories about his customers, marketing, and my favorite topic when I was a kid - new product launches. Our father also took us to his office before the advent of 'Take Your Child to Work Day.'

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• 'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • People