Andrew Davies Quotes
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Let me deal here with what General Motors includes and with the responsibility that rests on its management.
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When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
