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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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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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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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.
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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
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I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
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I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.
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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.
