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.

Dave Davies The Kinks

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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.

Zeljko Ivanek
- People
- World
- Why
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.

Barret Oliver
- Character
- Want
- Myself
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

Tawni O'Dell
- People
- America
- Small
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.

Umberto Eco
- Life
- Happy
- Sad
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

T-Pain
- Song
- Say
- Finish
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.

Feisal Abdul Rauf
- People
- Great
- Done