Andrew Davies Quotes
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.
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If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
