Dave Davies Quotes
Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
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I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
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Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
