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Andrew Davies Quotes

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Admire Military Virtues Even Should

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

John Lanchester

Money You Down Understand Frame Cut

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Sea Legal Better Country Want Mars

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Fame Changes Individual Rather Than

Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.

Good Me Feet Problems Perfect Down

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

Johnny Weissmuller

Water Waves Lane Up Little Get

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Medical I Am Long Normal Bills Very

Often, in books, I find female power to be cartoonish - power is a process, an evolution - it has responsibilities. It's not as simple as picking up your lightning bolt and throwing it at someone.

Deborah Harkness

Power Simple Process Someone Find

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They're all women.

Christine Lagarde

Good Women Best Men World Group

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Love Power Eyes Great Look Mean

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fear Resolution You Things Flee

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

Myself Write Characters I Write Put

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