Andrew Davies Quotes
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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To be is to do.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Music is about the performance.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.
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AirPods have squirmed their way into my life. I use them every day, and I always know where they are and if they're charged or not.
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The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge support base. Plus, it's very good in low light using all the Panavision lenses. The downside is that you're recording on tape.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
