Andrew Davies Quotes

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

Andrew Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 20, 1936

Topics

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Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

Mayim Bialik

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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Jeaniene Frost

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I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

Robert Battle

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I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

Moby

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It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

Louise Jameson

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Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Conan O'Brien

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I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.

Chubby Checker

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I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

Bobby Darin

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I've got a good game plan... keep things simple with my golf swing.

Brooks Koepka

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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

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They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

Allan Sherman

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