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.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Loyalty

• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way
  • Consequences
  • Statement

• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Feel
  • Run
  • Quit

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Control

• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Price
  • Gain

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • You
  • Conflict

• The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Change
  • Risk

• With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

  

  Young Buck
  • Me
  • Like
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Done
  • Story
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Moon

• 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'.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Voice
  • Celebrity
  • Chaos

• I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Rejection

• 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.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Time
  • Great
  • New

• My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Favorite
  • Fit
  • Vintage

• Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.

  

  Walter Scott
  • World
  • Age

• New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

  

  Dustin Clare
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Tennis

• Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • People
  • World
  • Technology

• The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

  

  Andrew Davies