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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Secretary

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Death
  • Man

• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • You
  • Phone
  • Phone Call

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Sexy
  • Fragrance
  • Centre

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Pretty
  • Cancer
  • Being

• 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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• 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!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Done
  • Think

• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Quality

• The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Crazy
  • Internet

• 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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Free
  • Freedom

• As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• I've got two contracts in my life. One, with my wife because we're married. And, two, I've got a contract to protect Andy Dalton. I'll do both of those to the best of my ability.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Life
  • Wife

• In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Good
  • Age

• Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Food
  • Ocean

• I know it hit his arm below the fence.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Fence
  • I Know
  • Arm

• I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

  

  Andrew Davies