Dave Davies Quotes
We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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I was a campaign widow.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.
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It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
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So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.
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And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
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For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
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We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads.
