Andrew Davies Quotes
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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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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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 -
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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My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot - you just can't fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It's actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there's really nowhere to hide.
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I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.
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What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
