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 am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.
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Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.
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Yeah, they try to get me to play. Because they want my money.
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Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.
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Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
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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.
