Andrew Davies Quotes
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.
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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
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When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.
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I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.
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Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are Twenty men crossing a bridge Into a village.
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Stuck on you.I've got this feeling downDeep in my soulThat I just can't lose.Guess, I'm on my way.Needed a friendAnd the way I feel now I guessI'll be with you till the endGuess I'm on my wayMighty glad you stayed.
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The main objects of the Population Congress would be ... (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
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School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
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The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.
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I'm trying my best.
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Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
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We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
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I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
