Luke Davies Quotes
Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
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Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
