Colin R. Davis Quotes
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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I look formidable.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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Eye without lid, mind without any dream -These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy, Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a birdOf stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you And you, bethou him and bethou. It is A sound like any other. It will end.
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Die Ros ist ohn warum; sie blühet weil sie blühet, Sie acht nicht ihrer selbst, fragt nicht, ob man sie siehet.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.
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It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look good.
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I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
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Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
