Doug Davidson Quotes
One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
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The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
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There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
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One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
