David Tennant Quotes

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

David Tennant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 18, 1971

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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

Jimmy Smits

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Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Jo Stafford

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I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco

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You have to be committed to the people and willing to do what is in their best interest even when it isn't in your best interest, and you have to be committed to getting results even if you don't get the credit.

Ron Crumpton

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I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

Michael Koryta

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I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

Christina Aguilera

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Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Bobby McFerrin

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Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

Ashley Tisdale

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You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

Ali Smith

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All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

Norman Davies

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A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

Reuven Rivlin

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I am a genderless sea creature who has been writing and studying music since I was 12.

Justin Tranter

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