Andrew Davies Quotes
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
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With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
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You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
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I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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Impatience and cutting corners: it’s the primate way. It got us down out of the trees and up to the top of the evolutionary heap as a species, which is a lot more like a slippery, mud-slick game of King of the Hill with stabbing encouraged than any kind of tidy Victorian great chain of being or ladder of creation.
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This done, he felt a little-not much, but a little-better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
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One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
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The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
