Dave Davies Quotes
I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.
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I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
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I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.
