Eric Davis Quotes
I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
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We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.
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I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
