Andrew Davies Quotes
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I don't think limits.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
