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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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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.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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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.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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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.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through the whole process with their own sort of system of making the music. It gives it a much more personal individual feel, like unique feel, when somebody has a really idiosyncratic set-up, or they just have what might be considered strange ways of going about the process that yields results that are not just cookie-cutter sounds like everything else... and I think that can only be a positive thing.
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Mine doesn't even know there is laundry. It just magically gets done.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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'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.
